09-20-2024, 10:06 AM
edit3;
Audience Hesitation
You want to know before
the movie starts,
the novel hooks you in,
not as a spoiler, YouTube™ clip
or liner note
(that would be cheating)–
nor must you be told
if there will be romantic interludes,
partings and reunions,
degradation, even loss of hope:
no, what you burn to know
(what all consumers yearn to know
before we dive in deep)
is if they leave as lovers.
Thanks to all new critics and commentators. The title still being discommended, another shot. Many swings at alternatives to wanting and being sucked in.
@mariematisse - Your comments were especially striking (not to say deflating): never thought of looking at it that way, though as always your read is as good as mine. We do not know, writing, what the reader will take away... including what was never thought to mean. You provide an inside view quite different from my down-from-above patrimonial one.
Audience Hesitation
You want to know before
the movie starts,
the novel hooks you in,
not as a spoiler, YouTube™ clip
or liner note
(that would be cheating)–
nor must you be told
if there will be romantic interludes,
partings and reunions,
degradation, even loss of hope:
no, what you burn to know
(what all consumers yearn to know
before we dive in deep)
is if they leave as lovers.
Thanks to all new critics and commentators. The title still being discommended, another shot. Many swings at alternatives to wanting and being sucked in.
@mariematisse - Your comments were especially striking (not to say deflating): never thought of looking at it that way, though as always your read is as good as mine. We do not know, writing, what the reader will take away... including what was never thought to mean. You provide an inside view quite different from my down-from-above patrimonial one.
Non-practicing atheist