Tuesday, 10 January 2017
Tuesday, 5 January 2016
Μοῖραι. | Divine Comedy
... Finally finishing up on Dante's Divine Comedy, after several years of intermittent picking-it-up & putting-it-back-down again across varying backstages of Britain.
I think I enjoyed the journey through the Inferno the best, walking in similar footsteps to Odysseus through the Underworld (XI). Familiar names alongside new histories with Dante's vivid imagination at work in listing out the punishments.
Something else which struck me & appealed to my artistic endeavours & source of employment - my meeting the Morai, the apportioners,
... I'd met the Three Graces before; Abigail Bosanko's fiction adopts them into her storyline to underpin sibling dynamics & relationships. Likewise I'd encountered the Nine Muses, Calliope - through Homer - & Clio especially. And I'd heard, in general, of the Fates as a plural entity & force for shaping destinies but their individual characteristics had passed me by:
- she: the Fate Lachesis who spins the thread of a person's life which her sister Clotho prepares & which the third Fate, Atropsos, cuts off at the time appointed for death.
Friday, 18 September 2015
Loaned.
Zafon, because a girl can always read some more of his. Always.
GG, having just watched the modern film, I thought I'd trace my steps backwards, &
LL, given the BBC's autumnal offerings, getting ahead of the game.
The only one which I haven't read yet have been meaning to do so for a number of years.
The only one which I haven't read yet have been meaning to do so for a number of years.
Monday, 8 June 2015
Ticking off another Classic. | Middlemarch
Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatic personae in her hand.
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... The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult - whether that of a shrimp-pool or deeper waters - which afterwards subsides into cheerful peace. The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same.
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... The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult - whether that of a shrimp-pool or deeper waters - which afterwards subsides into cheerful peace. The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same.
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Their young delight in speaking to each other, and saying what no one else would care to hear was for ever ended, and become a treasure of the past.
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He would have made, she thought, a much more suitable husband for her than she had found in Lydgate. No notion of this could have been falser than this, for Rosamond's discontent in her marriage was due to the conditions of marriage itself, to its demand for self-suppression and tolerance, and not to the nature of her husband; but the easy conception of an unreal Better had a sentimental charm which diverted her ennui. She constructed a little romance which was to vary the flatness of her life.
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