-- Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head --
Have a great Wednesday!
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Splash du Jour: Wednesday
-- Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head --
Have a great Wednesday!
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-- Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head --
Have a great Wednesday!
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2 comments:
I've read no Murdoch, but have wanted to ever since seeing the film Iris. To write of loss seems such a common theme, doesn't it?
And perhaps that is a good thing...maybe it means that we humans have not totally lost the art of appreciating those things of great value in our lives.
My favorite poem of loss:
One Art
by Elizabeth Bishop
The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.
I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.
—Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
Creepy title!
C.
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