dudemanflab's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why the Novel matters D.H. Lawrence cried "I am man alive. My yes today will be my no tomorrow." He said the novel taught us how to be man alive and woman alive by the fact that characters have to change. Something gives. and we learn--yes!--we are changing too. My inability to finish novels as of late might show that I--man alive--have more to do than read. Or it might show a resistance to change. to the truth of movement and becoming. Here is a list of novels I cannot finish and speculation why. Jane Eyre -- If I finish this novel, I will release a part of J. inside my memory. The part I never knew about her. I abandoned it just as I felt split between Rochester and Jane, like I could be either, and J. could too. The River Why -- If I finish this novel, Mel's and Karl's favorite book, I will arrive someplace with God. Perhaps not the place I'd hope to. It would undershoot most likely, but I'm stopped. Age of Iron -- This novel was boring. The Worst Hard Time, Genesis, The Mill on the Floss, Heart of Darkness, -- books from gradschool that I never got through (though still got A's!) I have letters I cannot write. I have cards I cannot send. I have lives I am not living every day. 2:18 a.m. - November 01, 2009 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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