Dickens describing Lady Dedlock in Bleak House:
" She is perfectly well-bred. If she could be translated to heaven to-morrow, she might be expected to ascend without any rapture. "
Literature: September 2003 Archives
I'm still reading Light. (I switch off books so often that I don't complete anything all that quickly. Keeps me on my toes and entertained juggling plotlines in my head.) And the more I read the more impressed I am. Lindgren has a near-obssession with the subject of incest as it makes up a main theme in both The Way of a Serpent and Light. I think it's a subset of a larger concern with internal family struggles which most interestingly develops full-blown into Sweetness the story of two brothers who have lived as long as they have because they are kept alive by wanting to see the other one dead. If Mr. Lindgren is an accurate chronicler, Sweden must be a most unpleasant place to live.
I purposefully do not set the context for the piece below, because I think it is what is said here that is important and I don't want to spoil the book for all of you who will rush out to get it because I've said it's a great read. (:-D)
That meant: He was a suicide and they used to bury them out in the forest. It was Borne who would have to do it."No one does anything entirely by himself," said Könik, "there's nothing so insignificant that you can do it solely by your own strength."
What that meant even he didn't know.
Nearly every sentence of this tightly constructed book resonates with meanings. Like a simple harmonic, each new iteration of the theme swells the progress of the whole. Remind me to tell you the sory of Boltzmann.
