Wednesday Reading Meme readers, I wanted so badly to tell you all about JUSTINE by LAWRENCE DURRELL, but it isn't going to happen this week. I have hardly had time to blather about JUSTINE in real life.
Well, no. I am going to post one thing from JUSTINE:
This is a pretty nice paragraph, actually. But no one ever thinks to warn you about the never-ending attacks from women, possibly the worst of the many hazards of being a writer. Worst of all is when the writer is also a woman: good luck getting anything done in that 24/7 war zone. :(
Next week, a real post! Probably!
Well, no. I am going to post one thing from JUSTINE:
Women must attack writers -- and from the moment she learned I as a writer she felt disposed to make herself interesting by dissecting me. All this would have been most flattering to my amour propre had some of her observations been further from the mark, but she was acute and I was too feeble to resist this sort of game -- the mental ambuscades which constitute the opening gambits of a flirtation.
This is a pretty nice paragraph, actually. But no one ever thinks to warn you about the never-ending attacks from women, possibly the worst of the many hazards of being a writer. Worst of all is when the writer is also a woman: good luck getting anything done in that 24/7 war zone. :(
Next week, a real post! Probably!
Comments
To be totally fair, the quoted paragraph is not a direct statement of the narrator, but an excerpt from a fictional roman a clef that someone else has written about the titular JUSTINE, which the narrator does not think is completely successful. The narrator is capable of plenty of his own aphoristic statements about women, but this one is my favorite.
In other news, the library has gotten Lud-in-the-Mist for me! Soon my journey will begin!
I'm looking forward to reading your thoughts! Which I might get to late due to circumstances, but hopefully not too many days late.