the member of the wedding
Feb. 22nd, 2006 05:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fflowhen i was something like 16 starnes told me, on the side and in response to my query, how it was she could tell that i 'got' the novel more than the other students. i'd liked the idea, of course, but i'd assumed it was bullshit. what could she mean by that; how could she know, based on my few mutterings about it (written or spoken, i recall not, now).
she said it was the thing about the thumb.
i suppose now i don't think any work boils down to one thing---not a good work, anyway---and i'm also suspicious that her conspiratorial thing might've had intentions beyond the scope of that discussion of the book. potentially kind or even wise ones, but, well, still, i undercut it on that level, too.
but the thing about the thumb, and that the thing about the thumb is significant, has stayed with me. and it is a theme i know inside and out. whether that was true before the taking aside, i can only guess, but i suppose there's a good chance it was. i'd picked it out for comment, apparently.
carson mccullers had a rough life.
not that that's here or there. but 'strue.
she said it was the thing about the thumb.
i suppose now i don't think any work boils down to one thing---not a good work, anyway---and i'm also suspicious that her conspiratorial thing might've had intentions beyond the scope of that discussion of the book. potentially kind or even wise ones, but, well, still, i undercut it on that level, too.
but the thing about the thumb, and that the thing about the thumb is significant, has stayed with me. and it is a theme i know inside and out. whether that was true before the taking aside, i can only guess, but i suppose there's a good chance it was. i'd picked it out for comment, apparently.
carson mccullers had a rough life.
not that that's here or there. but 'strue.
