First came the vacation and then the next term and then vacation again and then again another term and then again the vacation. It was like a train going in and out of tunnels and that was like the noise of the boys eating in the refectory when you opened and closed the flaps of your ears.
“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.”
This reminds me of the wonderful Devin Kelly: "I think, though, that one of the poet’s jobs—of many—is to dwell in the space of forever-unknowing, not with the intent to seek an answer, but to allow oneself better ways of understanding mystery and wonder. The poet does not give us answers. The poet gives us new ways to live and see and love without answers."
Faulkner and Joyce were my first loves, the experience of language that illuminated consciousness with mere words (and creative syntax). Now I think I need to take a fresh look at both The Sound and the Fury and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Thank you, Nina!
“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.”
This reminds me of the wonderful Devin Kelly: "I think, though, that one of the poet’s jobs—of many—is to dwell in the space of forever-unknowing, not with the intent to seek an answer, but to allow oneself better ways of understanding mystery and wonder. The poet does not give us answers. The poet gives us new ways to live and see and love without answers."
Thank you for the Words.
Thank you! I think Devein Kelly's quote is really important, especially in this age bloated with information and the obsession with knowing.
Faulkner and Joyce were my first loves, the experience of language that illuminated consciousness with mere words (and creative syntax). Now I think I need to take a fresh look at both The Sound and the Fury and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Thank you, Nina!
I love them, too! And I think this is one of literature's strengths; to convey human consciousness, the interior, the drama of the mind.
Joyce and Faulkner are gateway lit-drugs to the likes of Beckett and Tom Stoppard.
You find writers who sing to you, and you have to listen just like you have to listen to your own music and write to that song.