The Road / Cormac McCarthy

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.
You forget some things, don't you?
Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
"To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong." Joseph Chilton Pearce

"If you press me to tell why I loved him, I feel that this cannot be expressed,
except by answering: Because it was he, because it was I."
Michel de Montaigne, "Of Friendship"

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Frankenstein

It's incredible Mary Shelly conceived Frankenstein when she was only eighteen, and threw bold sentences like "But revenge kept me alive; I dared not die, and leave my adversary in being" (205). How horrid it must have been for Frankenstein to see with his own eyes the destruction and death his creation has done. And to hear it say to him, "You hate me; but your abhorrence cannot equal that with which I regard myself" (224). I imagined Frankenstein's face, his old and weary face after years of chasing and being chased, when he hears this. I imagined sadness pass over his tired eyes as he finally understood the  infinite dejection of the brute he created. 
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