Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return. We can pick up what we dropped. We can mend what others broke.
– Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Grove Press, March 6, 2012)
Portrait: CCCB
That was such a good book. I love how you pick out parts that make us think.
You recommended it to me. And I’m grateful. Thank you Dale.
Yes, I remember our discussion. Me thinking you had recommended it to me! Now, I’m wondering who did? Glad you are or already enjoyed it 🙂
Often one’s life quest
It is….
Realizing this more with every passing day. It’s somehow comforting…. 🙂
So true….
We love all the books of Jeanette Winteson, she is clever and funny, isn’t she?
Keep well
The Fab Four of Cley
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
She really is Klaus.
Haven’t read her work, but the title is wise–happy can be evanescent but normal suggests being in the present…being “real.”
She is REAL and so very talented.