Revisiting wilbur...
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2014 1:37 am
...is like reconnecting with my own younger self.
Hello all.
I first came across WS in my teens...forget exactly when then...it was the Courtneys...and then reading the burning shore likely about the same age as centaine was in the story, when we meet her.
Now after nearly two decades I am finding myself reading WS again, and none of the pleasure is lost...mostly even enhanced and may be I am noticing some little problems here and there, but for the most part, in all my reading through the years, the highbrows et al, I have not encountered another writer and a world that he loves as much and imparts that love in us too...may be JK Rowling and JRR Tolkien come to mind with their scope of availing mythical possibility in the human dimension.
In this mad rush of reconnecting, I have just now reread WTLF, ASF, TBS, and I am forgetting now, the one with writer from New York...Bawu's grandson...the Craig mellow one. This was a bit disappointing.
Anyway, just thought I will write here and properly introduce myself, as I am feeling compelled to comment and share this process of rediscovering WS.
Will write a commentary elsewhere on reencountering TBS which is the freshest one right now.
Best.
Hello all.
I first came across WS in my teens...forget exactly when then...it was the Courtneys...and then reading the burning shore likely about the same age as centaine was in the story, when we meet her.
Now after nearly two decades I am finding myself reading WS again, and none of the pleasure is lost...mostly even enhanced and may be I am noticing some little problems here and there, but for the most part, in all my reading through the years, the highbrows et al, I have not encountered another writer and a world that he loves as much and imparts that love in us too...may be JK Rowling and JRR Tolkien come to mind with their scope of availing mythical possibility in the human dimension.
In this mad rush of reconnecting, I have just now reread WTLF, ASF, TBS, and I am forgetting now, the one with writer from New York...Bawu's grandson...the Craig mellow one. This was a bit disappointing.
Anyway, just thought I will write here and properly introduce myself, as I am feeling compelled to comment and share this process of rediscovering WS.
Will write a commentary elsewhere on reencountering TBS which is the freshest one right now.
Best.