Monday, October 8, 2007

Ideas and Ideals - The Role of the Intellectual Dissenter - Faithful are the Wounds by May Sarton




I have finished May Sarton's Faithful are the Wounds and her writing was even better than I remembered it.

Here's an excerpt:
You must learn to read with the whole of yourselves; you must bring love as well as intellect to this kind of analysis - just as in personal relationships. After all, a really fruitful reading of an author of this stature means giving up yourself for a time, mean being able to encompass something wholly by imaginative sympathy. These are not mere intellectual matters." His fist was closed, as if he were restraining himself from bringing it down with a bang on the table. "You're going at a fine piece of pottery with a blacksmith's hammer. Naturally it breaks to pieces...

And my complete thoughts are here. Her outmodedness is undeserved!

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