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All of us long for things (sometimes for things we cannot --or should not--have); artists make this longing palpable, they give it form often by transferring it to their invented characters in books or films or plays--sometimes they can get rid of it that way, and sit back and watch as their creations take off with a life of their own.
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What are we to make of this longing?
Does this ability to be closer make the longing more or less?
Auden, by his nature, was always going to be the more loving one, so he'd tried to make the longing admirable and desirable.
The book's slow shaping and deliberate revision left a few anachronisms, but its amalgam of bravado and self-mockery, of skankiness and longing, made this early specimen of "creative nonfiction" into an object of fierce reader devotion.
"That only made the longing worse," he said.
I think it makes the longing more, because is it more present.
Try to imagine how it all works and visualize all the people in the world in this very moment, being born, dying, eating, making love, longing for something, being deeply satisfied... Breathe into it and realize you are a part of an amazingly complicated and beautiful living world.
Lila isn't unattractive, but she has big, sad eyes made for longing.
This longing for love made her vulnerable to her "boyfriend," who had different plans for their "relationship".
In this début novel, Greer pinpoints the "tiny hidden madnesses in ordinary people" with unerring accuracy, and, in prose littered with sparks, makes palpable the longing for the celestial.
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