I’m always in quest of the holy grail of books, the perfect book that explains it all, the book whose beauty is as fierce as lightning and whose meaning points to true north, so I dip into thousands of books for a moment and note that this, too, is not it.
~ Rebecca Solnit, in “Rebecca Solnit: By the Book” (NY Times, August 16, 2018)
Portrait: sfweekly
Love her essays and work, thanks for sharing this!
Me too! Thanks Claire.
the ongoing search –
Wonder if she’s read the Holy Bible? If so what she thought…
Likely a separate parallel path of readings.
🙂
Thank you, I’m looking her up…interesting. Anyone who appreciates George Orwell that much has discernment.
She is…(Interesting)
I haven’t read (anything) in 8 weeks!
My soul is parched because of that and I have no idea why I haven’t picked up anything in this long.
Giddyap!
It’s hard to pick up something after Aetherial Worlds, Tatyana Tolstaya.
Especially the last chapter, what was it? The reverse side note from her father on a card he had sent her from Italy. Or, how she talked about Italy. The whole world talks about Italy, she talked about what the rest of the world would be without Italy. She’s a brilliant woman.
Yes. Amazing talent…
Sawsan; her book is on my wishlist. Not that ANYBODY E.V.E.R. Even knows about that list – it’s just there, waiting for the time when I can’t wait any longer…. It’s an expensive book over here.
But NOW you MUST go back to reading. I couldn’t live 8 wks w/o reading. I would ressort to the telephone directory or else….
Something will find me and sit me down demanding to be read soon, autumn will do it ❤
I wasn’t able to read the NY Times article as I don’t have a subscription… I am missing out!
I’ll send u a copy
May I ask the same please, David?! You knew I would ask that, didn’t you?!
Of course.
Gosh, I wish she would have tried the bible… Thank you Christie, I thought the same!
I don’t really read the bible but IF I could only take ONE book on the famous island, it would be the bible.