Love all the reflections on the relationship between memory and story. The way we sometimes shape/remember differently might sometimes, I think, convey deeper truths that the literal facts of what happened. I’ve thought a lot of the gospels, and how they are writing in such a different mode than we are used to in our western/modern culture, and that can be a hang up for people faith/belief wise when not properly understood. Finally the question of finding morals in stories/how that is a task we must be careful with dovetails very well with Northanger Abbey-it will come up a lot there too!
I love when the books start talking to each other. This happens ALL the time and it is totally providential because I purposely don’t pick a theme for each Reading Revisited year. I think it is so fun to see how seemingly unrelated books interact with each other and influence our reading.
Yes! It’s so true. And as is talked about so much in Everything Sad is Untrue, truly great stories are always going to talking to each other across time and space; they’re all ultimately telling the same story/are patterned after the one true one.
Love all the reflections on the relationship between memory and story. The way we sometimes shape/remember differently might sometimes, I think, convey deeper truths that the literal facts of what happened. I’ve thought a lot of the gospels, and how they are writing in such a different mode than we are used to in our western/modern culture, and that can be a hang up for people faith/belief wise when not properly understood. Finally the question of finding morals in stories/how that is a task we must be careful with dovetails very well with Northanger Abbey-it will come up a lot there too!
I love when the books start talking to each other. This happens ALL the time and it is totally providential because I purposely don’t pick a theme for each Reading Revisited year. I think it is so fun to see how seemingly unrelated books interact with each other and influence our reading.
Yes! It’s so true. And as is talked about so much in Everything Sad is Untrue, truly great stories are always going to talking to each other across time and space; they’re all ultimately telling the same story/are patterned after the one true one.