Saturday, March 12, 2005
On the passing of a moment (2)..
"One great difference between persons of real life and the persons of fiction is that persons of real life are creatures of impulse..and it may be said also in the conduct of life that we make use of deliberation to justify to ourselves in doing what we want to do. And to surrender to impulse is part of that pattern." That was Somerset Maugham, a writer whom I so desperately wished live in my times. His astute potrayal of characters and their lives tend to live on with me not because they are what I aspire to be but because they seem to be telling me more about myself - the quest that we conciously or otherwise are on.
"I have never wished the passing moment might linger so that I could get more enjoyment from it, for even when it has brought me something I immensely looked forward to, my imagination in the very moment of fulfilment has been busy in the problematic delight of whatever was to come." Something that at first thought seems ridiculous is a very obvious pointer to the hope and excitement that lives with us from moment to moment.
"One great difference between persons of real life and the persons of fiction is that persons of real life are creatures of impulse..and it may be said also in the conduct of life that we make use of deliberation to justify to ourselves in doing what we want to do. And to surrender to impulse is part of that pattern." That was Somerset Maugham, a writer whom I so desperately wished live in my times. His astute potrayal of characters and their lives tend to live on with me not because they are what I aspire to be but because they seem to be telling me more about myself - the quest that we conciously or otherwise are on.
"I have never wished the passing moment might linger so that I could get more enjoyment from it, for even when it has brought me something I immensely looked forward to, my imagination in the very moment of fulfilment has been busy in the problematic delight of whatever was to come." Something that at first thought seems ridiculous is a very obvious pointer to the hope and excitement that lives with us from moment to moment.
# posted by S @ 10:03 PM 
