quoted: This is what happened to Stephen Dedalus in Joyce’s The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, when he saw the girl in the stream—suddenly a miracle of what something is. This is seeing the person as though it were a dream. And when we are in love with somebody we say, “You’re my dream,” or “You’re a dream walking,” or something like this—you know, you get poetic as well as we can, and try to go past the rational realm. You might say, “Darling, you’re like a rose.” And then the next time a new inspiration comes, “You’re a swan.” And she being what she is, a stupid little thing, “Well, make up your mind, which is it?” And this is a girl with no possibility for a religious life.
Posted on: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 02:18:49 +0000
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