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Aug. 14th, 2001 10:07 am"I have given my love to what is worthy of love. Is that not the kingdom and the unperishing spring?"
I have finished -The Farthest Shore-, and remembered why I read these books over and over again. God, the ending of that book is just so powerful. It makes me want so badly... It takes me back to the age I was when I began reading this series, that time in middle school and high school when all I did was want. I wanted so much for my life to start, for my life to larger than it was, for glory and honor, and the opportunity to love and prove my love like Arren does. And reading the book now, when my life has ostensibly started, it still makes me want. Oh, it makes me want more than I can have. It makes me want my life to be bigger than it possibly can be in this world we live in. My life's work is teaching people to read, and in that way I work to better the world, and in that way also I have achieved something that I wanted for a very long time. But my life does not afford me the opportunity for the silence, the brutal wisdom and honesty of Ged, nor the love, strength, and grief of Arren. The world we live in was not made for the grand gestures that this book makes me long to make.
I have finished -The Farthest Shore-, and remembered why I read these books over and over again. God, the ending of that book is just so powerful. It makes me want so badly... It takes me back to the age I was when I began reading this series, that time in middle school and high school when all I did was want. I wanted so much for my life to start, for my life to larger than it was, for glory and honor, and the opportunity to love and prove my love like Arren does. And reading the book now, when my life has ostensibly started, it still makes me want. Oh, it makes me want more than I can have. It makes me want my life to be bigger than it possibly can be in this world we live in. My life's work is teaching people to read, and in that way I work to better the world, and in that way also I have achieved something that I wanted for a very long time. But my life does not afford me the opportunity for the silence, the brutal wisdom and honesty of Ged, nor the love, strength, and grief of Arren. The world we live in was not made for the grand gestures that this book makes me long to make.
