No percentage, but I am a fan. Have you read Housekeeping? It's
stunningly poetic novel, in ways the new one can not be, since the
narrator is not. I didn't know, but apparently, as I was told by a
friend yesterday, Robinson has become a Christian. but one of the
thoughtful ones....
Yeah: we're pretty normal, although novel-writing poets might not be --
to poets who cant tell a story to save their lives, like me...
Doug
On 18-Jan-05, at 9:01 AM, MJ Walker wrote:
> I'm dying to read that book, Doug, after your last puff (do you get a
> percentage? ;-) ) & reading about it on the www. About all these
> Biblical statements about this world & the next: I think we have to
> recognize that these people (I mean, look at Paul...) just weren't
> *normal*, in fact I wouldn't be too surprised to hear they ate a lot
> of uncontrolled mushrooms. I say funny things too, though not on this
> list (go to armageddondown.com for that). Actually, sorry folks on
> petc, but you all seem incredibly *normal* to me. Even Ken (that might
> be because he reads like a cross between a Bellow character & Lenny
> Bruce, y'know, normal Americans to us Limeys) & Mark. Sorry
> again...(But Alison, writing 4,000 lines a day is NOT normal - it's
> taken me a lifetime to produce that much!)
> mj
>
> Douglas Barbour wrote:
>
>> Having, as I think I said, just read Marilynne Robinson's fine
>> Gideon, in which a dying pastor of a small USAmerican town tells of
>> his life & of the lives of his father & grandfather & of the people
>> he knows, & demonstrates a terrific love for the world as part of his
>> faith in God (which I confess I found particularly moving in his
>> narration), this is, then, fascinating, if, for me, telling in a way
>> I can't accept:
>>
>> We may compare
>> James 4:4-
>>
>> You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship (/philia/)
>> with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a
>> friend (/philos/) of the world becomes an enemy of God.
>>
>> I find Robinson's representation of a human love for others & for the
>> world as the core of a human faith in something more profound &
>> worthy.
>>
>> Doug
>> Douglas Barbour
>> Department of English
>> University of Alberta
>> Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Canada
>> (780) 436 3320
>> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
>>
>> The poet is ecstatic, having dreamt of this visit for weeks.
>> He takes EratoˇZs face, dribbling and wild, between his hands
>>
>> and kisses her gently as if she were a runaway teenager.
>>
>> Diana Hartog
>>
>
>
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Canada
(780) 436 3320
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
The poet is ecstatic, having dreamt of this visit for weeks.
He takes Eratoˇ¦s face, dribbling and wild, between his hands
and kisses her gently as if she were a runaway teenager.
Diana Hartog
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