The suggestion has
been reported many
times. But who can
ever have prepared
for freckles to be
hot in monochrome?
The effect recalls
Homer's imagery in
the Iliad, and one
can never think of
its power, without
Simone Weil's per-
ception of its or-
igin in force. The
discovery of power
in other means has
the same parentage
but is less common.
The effect recalls
Homer's imagery in
the Iliad, and one
can never think of
its power, without
Simone Weil's per-
ception of its or-
igin in force. The
discovery of power
in other means has
the same parentage
but is less common.
The great and characteristic
point with him was the per-
fect separateness of his sen-
sibility. He never saw him-
self as part of a whole; only
as the clear-cut, sharp-edged,
isolated individual, rejoicing
or raging, as the case might
be, but needing in any case
absolutely to affirm himself.
All this to Rowland was ancient
history, but his perception of
it stirred within him afresh at
the sight of Roderick's sense
of having been betrayed.
Roderick Hudson
1874
Harper & Brothers, 1960©
I think James would approve.
ReplyDelete"Roderick Hudson" appeared as a serial in The Atlantic. Amazing to consider this to have been his answer to the question of whether to risk his work in the perishable medium; but at the same time, its subscription base meant that it would be seen by persons who didn't directly "demand" to read it. Something about blogging with imagery involves this cultivation of a subscriber base, of persons who don't directly demand to read the text. The cultivation is not for the base, it's for the communication, and for the projection of a frame a little richer than book covers, for those who chance to read. This, thank you for suggesting, and for nudging one to appreciate, I do think he would approve.
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