Orlando definitely got weirder as it went along, but ohgod, so good. So good. I may write more when I feel like I can articulate why it is so awesome, but for now, I'll leave it as GO READ NOW PLZ.
I think I may have to read To the Lighthouse now. (I cannot BELIEVE I am saying that.)
I think I may have to read To the Lighthouse now. (I cannot BELIEVE I am saying that.)
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Date: 2006-07-25 02:55 am (UTC)And I meant to comment on your earlier post re: the Indigo Girls song, but then got sidetracked. Anyway, that is by far one of my favorite songs of all time, and I know exactly what you mean about there being certain points in your life when you need to hear it. In fact, I've written the same thing myself (http://gamesiplay.livejournal.com/309134.html).
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Date: 2006-07-25 04:04 am (UTC)I've heard that from some people. (Although often these people also enjoyed The Waves, which I've already complained about.) BTW, I totally saw that lighthouse from the train and the beach when the Kenyon/Exeter program took a field trip to St. Ives in Cornwall. :)
In fact, I've written the same thing myself.
*reads* *agrees with post*
And I loveloveLOVE Arcadia as well. I like that passage you quoted in the post, and I really like what Septimus says to Thomasina about human knowledge being a kind of endless march, where things are dropped and lost but eventually picked up/rewritten in the future. As someone who was as disconsolate as Thomasina when I heard about the destruction of the library at Alexandria when I was ten or twelve, that really got to me.