i'm wide awake
i have been reading this book called the awakening. it is by kate chopin. it is pretty short, but i have just been reading it on and off, so i haven't gotten to the end yet. it's not really a plot-line kind of book, but the theme is interesting. it's about a person awakening to the fact that everyone in life is following some beaten old path that she has no interest in walking down.
my cousin really likes the book, too.
it is one of those books that every now and then a line jumps off the page and says something in a way you wish you had thought of saying it. i was reading it last night on the plane ride home from salt lake city, and i got to this part where the main character decides she is going to be an artist. she has this very urbane friend who explains you can't just be an artist. and edna, the main character, asks her why.
so her friend mademoiselle reisz replies "i do not know you well enough to say. i do not know your talent or temperament. to be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts--absolute gifts--which have not been acquired by one's own effort. and moreover, to succeed, the artist must possess the courageous soul."
"what do you mean by the courageous soul?"
"courageous, ma foi! the brave soul. the soul that dares and defies."
that's a cool description, in my opinion.
by the way, it is so hot here and i can't think of the words to describe how steamy it is, so here's a few pics that do the absolute intensity of this heat justice. peace.
my cousin really likes the book, too.
it is one of those books that every now and then a line jumps off the page and says something in a way you wish you had thought of saying it. i was reading it last night on the plane ride home from salt lake city, and i got to this part where the main character decides she is going to be an artist. she has this very urbane friend who explains you can't just be an artist. and edna, the main character, asks her why.
so her friend mademoiselle reisz replies "i do not know you well enough to say. i do not know your talent or temperament. to be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts--absolute gifts--which have not been acquired by one's own effort. and moreover, to succeed, the artist must possess the courageous soul."
"what do you mean by the courageous soul?"
"courageous, ma foi! the brave soul. the soul that dares and defies."
that's a cool description, in my opinion.
by the way, it is so hot here and i can't think of the words to describe how steamy it is, so here's a few pics that do the absolute intensity of this heat justice. peace.
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