…That I love this. I’m only on chapter five of The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle, and it’s getting too high-level hippie, but the idea of turning off my mind’s stream-of-consciousness dribble, and the logic of there being nothing more than now, is powerful.
Still, I promise “The Secret” will never mean more to me than what you told me you did that night in college…
She commanded so much respect that when Playboy interviewed Ayn Rand in the ’60s, she edited the interview, striking some of the writer’s questions, rearranging her answers, and instructing Playboy‘s editor how she wanted her introduction to read.
She wrote a novel that people voted as the most influential book, next to the Bible.
She had an affair with a man half her age, with the consent of both their spouses.
She also, according to author of Ayn Rand and The World She Made Kindle book, made a uniform of a black velvet cape, a gold dollar-sign brooch, and an ivory cigarette holder, and used prescription amphetamines to fuel 24-hour writing sessions.
My sort of lady…
Edith Wharton is one of my top three writers — she was a real master of the novel, and understood better than anyone how to stylize fiction to reveal more truth than journalism.
The Glimpses of the Moon highlights her other great skill: creating characters alive with moral questions. A novel about a couple who marries to live off honeymoon presents, you’ll note a timeless tension, you may –
Remember The Glimpses of the Moon making a guest appearance on Entourage, as a script Vinny Chase’s girlfriend-agent wanted him to take on.
Vinny didn’t read it — how could he? — but you should…
I’ve been reading ebooks from ManyBooks.net since high school. ManyBooks.net is a site full of free, public domain ebooks downloadable in all formats — a Treo when I was in high school and Kindle downloads for my iPhone now.
The Age of Innocence is one of those (e)books I read at least once a year — Edith Wharton was so elegant a writer that you need to read each of her stories at least three times before you realize how rich her work was with moral tension and scenery that reflects the living souls of characters.
If you watch The Age of Innocence — with Daniel Day-Lewis and Michelle Pfeiffer directed by Scorsese — you’ll note that the drawing room’s fire sparks during high points of quiet conversation between unrequited lovers. Then you’ll reread the book — going on five times? Five hundred? — , and wonder how you ever missed that…
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