Saw Adam Elliot's short film _Harvie Krumpet_ while E was napping.
The story of Harvie reminded me of what Prof B once said in a class on _Ulysses_ in 2003. Bloom has every reason to give up, to feel depressed or even suicidal, yet he carried on, in spite of all the ugly business of living... Somehow I've always remembered that little comment, the only thing that I really learned from all those painful hours spent on Modernism.
Harvie's life is marked by illness, displacement, and a lot of bad luck. He's never defeated though-- no, it's not precise to comment this way, because for him life is not a question of fighting. Instead, it is simply a journey you go on naturally no matter what. His "carp diem" and naturalist philosophy, which comes as much from the "Horace" epiphany as from a residual memory about his parents, is perhaps just a little effort to make the journey a bit more pleasant.
[Reading the above paragraph again I realized the over use of "to be" sentences -- a problem Prof B pointed out in my term papers that same year. My writing still sucks.]
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3 comments:
dear, don't be too harsh on yourself. your writing is already better than many including your faithful reader here:)look how far you have gone from then.
ah dear, thanks for comfort. But I like your writing way better than mine!
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