quizzicalcontent

Sunday, November 19, 2006

arbre

Diorissi said...: This was sent to me by Kaye

"And I would think back on conversations I had had....
As if you had no interest in it except in seeing how well the two sides bring each other along, how much they can require of each other, how the life that it is real subject of it all is manifest in it.. . . .When people come to speak to me, whatever they say, I am struck by a kind of incandescence in them, the 'I' whose predicate can be 'love' or 'fear' or 'want', and whose object can be 'someone' or 'nothing' and it won't really matter, because the loveliness is just in that presence, shaped around 'I' like a flame on a wick, emanating itself in grief and guilt and joy and whatever else."
(Marilynne Robinson, Gilead, 2004:50-51); 20 November, 2006 12:42