Confessions of a Bibliophile

[Knot]

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Hi TqB.

What is the unpleasantness? Racial overtones?

Yep. And given that the 'logic' of the ending doesn't work ,why stick (ahem) with it?

I had more about that, because it was being read to me by a relative, an ex-Aunt (ex in that my uncle divorced her, or she him)

See, that's where it gets interesting to the outsider. The experience, not the specific text (which will always be particular to you).

It was an award winning children's book in the 1960s. How soon the world forgets!

Not sure it has forgotten, but you'd have to have read it to forget it, and I don't think I did.

OK, need to work on that, switch in my brain, channel changer on TV

It's such a clichéd phrase, and surely this is a magical moment?

You really don't like lists, do you? Wink

Coincidentally I've just been working on one. Not a poem, an actual list.

The problem is that it presumes that your attitude towards a particular book is the same as the readers.

I was trying to show the wandering way I moved from classic lit (for children) through pulp lit and finally on to real lit (my definition of it anyway)

I think that may be part of the problem, literature being a bit eye of the beholder-ish.

I thought I was expressing that, but I guess not

Not getting much sense of passion from 'taught/heard/encountered/defined'

Keep going, the fog will clear.

Best, Knot

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