We can't know where our pain is from
We don't know all that we've done
Perhaps it is best that we don't
Nevertheless we suffer from it
Rumi
(from Sexual Urgency, What a Woman Laughter can do, and the Nature of True Virility)
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Friday, October 24, 2014
On Chick Lit and Dude Lit and Great Lit
Chick lit is girl talk. Like any girl talk, it can be many things, smart, silly, or annoying.
Dude lit is men talk. And just like girl talk, it can be clever, dull, or irritating.
Great lit is soul talk.
Dude lit is men talk. And just like girl talk, it can be clever, dull, or irritating.
Great lit is soul talk.
On Love Licks
Yesterday I finally discovered John Updike! What a masterclass of writing.
It was love at first page.
Strangely, his heroes (in Love Licks) are cruising above any deep, ravishing feelings or are just routinely burying them, yet at the end there's a powerful emotional impact resulted from a slow accumulation of things hinted and left unsaid.
Genius! Too bad he didn't win the Nobel Prize!
It was love at first page.
Strangely, his heroes (in Love Licks) are cruising above any deep, ravishing feelings or are just routinely burying them, yet at the end there's a powerful emotional impact resulted from a slow accumulation of things hinted and left unsaid.
Genius! Too bad he didn't win the Nobel Prize!
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