Another bite at the cherry
Jul. 2nd, 2005 08:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustWe were talking about what we want from books, what we read for, or re-read for. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cristalia puts it very well:
Certainly it works that way for me, that the books I most love tend to stay with me after I've closed the book.
But since she is talking about why she loved one book and didn't love another (if you want to know which, go read her!), she touches on another important thing: that if we're talking about the books we love, we're talking as much about the reader as about the book.
Si on me presse de dire pourquoy je l'aymois, je sens que cela ne se peut exprimer qu'en respondant : Parce que c'estoit luy, parce que c'estoit moy.
(Montaigne, Essais, Livre I, Chapitre XXVIII "De l'amitié")
- works with books, too.
cristalia puts it very well:"It did those things I want a book to do: haunted me in my sleep, kept poking up in my head, survived fresh and intact numerous rereads. It gave me truths."
Certainly it works that way for me, that the books I most love tend to stay with me after I've closed the book.
But since she is talking about why she loved one book and didn't love another (if you want to know which, go read her!), she touches on another important thing: that if we're talking about the books we love, we're talking as much about the reader as about the book.
Si on me presse de dire pourquoy je l'aymois, je sens que cela ne se peut exprimer qu'en respondant : Parce que c'estoit luy, parce que c'estoit moy.
(Montaigne, Essais, Livre I, Chapitre XXVIII "De l'amitié")
- works with books, too.
