Whenever I have time, that is to say, right now, when my 24 hour day have a painful touch and I can do what I fancy for an hour, at least, between painkiller and painkiller, I love reviewing these books I read in the past and which have been meaningful to me.
Maybe inspired by our dear bloggers The Walsh Family, Rip Van Winckle and Jack the Ripper who also brig us back to the values of classical literature, forgotten nowadays?
Here I am this morning reviewing one of my masters, one of the forbidden writers (according to Sara Palin) Aldous Huxley's Music at Night, 1931. A collection of essays, short enough for me to finish between pain and pain.
This is the essence:
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
I also came across one paragraph which I related to the aforesaid bloggers that I transcribe below:
"When the experiences recorded in a piece of literature correspond fairly closely with our own actual experiences, or with what I may call our potential experiences-experiences, that is to say, which we feel (as the result of a more or less explicit process of inference from known facts) that we might have had-we say, inaccurately no doubt: 'This piece of writing is true.' But this, of course, is not the whole story.
I wonder how much of their lives you share with your characters, and what is it that you share? I'd love to have an answer, and yet, you might not have it.
That very same paragraph shows the usage of "piece" in English.
*This piece of writing
*A piece of paper
*A piece of advice
*A piece of literature
*A piece of furniture
*...
Huxley was probably aware, as much as his own language has proven to be, of the "pieces" in life.
English, a language that allows pieces and almost forbids the "whole". What a language! I know it can drive crazy more than one. Easy in a way (no accents, easy verb structures) and difficult (no rules for pronunciation, different sentence structure...) I realize, almost at the end of my professional career, how it has affected my other languages; Catalan and Spanish, not to say French. Languages that I have used most of my life...
What a mess! The final mess which brings me to my last point, the one I want to convey, to share with you, for you to consider and help you develop the side of the bran which is less active by showing a clear example of a "right brained" person. The one who has written this very inarticulate piece of writing. Here are my results:
Brain Lateralization Test Results |
Right Brain (56%) The right hemisphere is the visual, figurative, artistic, and intuitive side of the brain.
Left Brain (36%) The left hemisphere is the logical, articulate, assertive, and practical side of the brain
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