“Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? …Well, thi
“Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? …Well, think about it. Maybe you’re playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.” Steinbeck wrote to a friend after completing his manuscript, “I finished my book a week ago. Much the longest and surely the most difficult work I have ever done… I have put all the things I have wanted to write all my life. This is ‘the book’. If it is not good I have fooled myself all the time. I don’t mean I will stop but this is a definite milestone and I feel released. Having done this I can do anything I want. Always I had this book waiting to be written.” “East of Eden” is an allegory. It follows the lives of two families, the Trasks and the Hamiltons. Over generations these families can’t help but continue to re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the rivalry of Cain and Abel. And then there is Cathy Ames. Just one of the most absolutely terrifying characters put down on paper. A psychopath. Beautiful Cathy, whose beauty is a perfect cover, is also a liar. She lies indiscriminately. Man, this book blew my mind the first time I read it. One of three books that properly felt like an experience. A true masterpiece. “We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.” (at Weltevredenpark, Gauteng, South Africa) https://www.instagram.com/p/CU-cHDTgNR1/?utm_medium=tumblr -- source link
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