A Great Quote
This is ME through and through:
I'm angry, really angry, so seldom that it always takes me by surprise. At first I think it's fever and chills, that I'm getting the flu or something; and when I realize what's happening I don't know how to express it with the proper force.
Page 163 of Real People by Alison Lurie. Random House, 1969.
Oh and ten pages later? This is me too:
I never know how to meet a direct attack; am slow even to recognize one, to take in the fact that something irrevocably hostile has been said. I sat there stupidly, feeling disoriented and weightless, but stiff at the same time, as if I had just been in an auto accident.
The rest of the novel is also good...if you've ever thought of being a writer you'll want to read it.
I'm angry, really angry, so seldom that it always takes me by surprise. At first I think it's fever and chills, that I'm getting the flu or something; and when I realize what's happening I don't know how to express it with the proper force.
Page 163 of Real People by Alison Lurie. Random House, 1969.
Oh and ten pages later? This is me too:
I never know how to meet a direct attack; am slow even to recognize one, to take in the fact that something irrevocably hostile has been said. I sat there stupidly, feeling disoriented and weightless, but stiff at the same time, as if I had just been in an auto accident.
The rest of the novel is also good...if you've ever thought of being a writer you'll want to read it.
posted by SamD | 2:16 PM
8 Comments:
Thanks for the Alison Lurie recommendation.
Wishing you and your garden a Happy Spring.
If I ever manage to find a gap in my knitting and reading, I'll definitely look it up. Wish you could have joined us this weekend. It was a blast.
Thanks for the kind thoughts.
I too wish I could've had a weekend of knitting fun; would'a been a blast.
But my daffodils are blooming!!
Wow, perhaps I can claim responsibility for an Alison Lurie revival, or bring her to the bestseller lists. Tates and Foreign Affairs were made into movies, the latter being a cable TV feature. You make me want to reread all of the Lurie works again, but I am currently savoring Rita Dove's book of poetry, "Thomas and Beulah."
I identify with those feeligns too. It reads to me like the person in the novel 'diassociates' when anger appears. A trick many abused children learn and carry into adulthood.
A Lurie revival would be lovely; I'll be mentioning how much I'm enjoying Only Children eventually.
Funny how some of us like to simply Not Have bad emotions, isn't it?
When faced with the situation of a verbal attack I have something I say to gain the upper hand. "arsehole"!
The people I know are not very refined.
Heheheh.
Sugar IS "very refined" and it's pretty damned bland.
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