I am holding 'Go set a watchman' in hand for the past few hours. Am I reading it? No. Honestly I don't want to read it because it will end soon if I started reading. And I don't want it to end. You may find it strange but ask any passionate reader and they will tell you that's their biggest fear. That the book will end. To kill a mockingbird was a wonder. And I know that this too will be.
Harper Lee might have been a one-book wonder but she was a wonder alright. Not like other 'intellectual' one-book-earlier-and-now-two-book wonders.
More about the book if I can bring myself to read it.
“ What is the feeling when you're driving away from people, and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? It's the too huge world vaulting us, and it's goodbye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.” -- Jack Kerouac (American Poet and Novelist) From what I have seen and admired in humans, they are eternal optimists. Goodbyes seem to break us, but we straighten up and walk, holding our head high, blinking away our tears. And as regards the specks of people dispersing, when something moves away, something else comes near. Guess that's how laws of nature move. If a time comes when nothing else comes near, it's when we will become really alone; alone to live and love life without any reason, taking the next step forward.
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