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"

Saturday, November 6, 2010

The Age of Innocence, Chapter 9

"Does no one want to know the truth here, Mr. Archer? The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!"
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

I love Ellen. She owns this bold beauty that penetrates my densely annotated pages of Wharton. Ellen is rebellious and lovely and peculiar and frank and ineffably charming to Newland. He just doesn't realize he loves her yet. Because he is confined to the societal expectations of New York. Because he is a coward who does not and cannot step out of his fear of being wrong or socially unacceptable. But Ellen has flouted all this effortlessly. Ironically it is she who is more independent and free than he. 
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