The echoes that haunt my reading include some of the biblical passages I loved when I was young and deeply religious (in a Catholic way). For instance, your confession/profession of your need to create immediately brought this to mind: “If I say, ‘I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name,’ there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.”
In any case, this is one person who is grateful that you are an artist. And who believes that art is necessary and vital and transformative.
The echoes that haunt my reading include some of the biblical passages I loved when I was young and deeply religious (in a Catholic way). For instance, your confession/profession of your need to create immediately brought this to mind: “If I say, ‘I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name,’ there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.”
In any case, this is one person who is grateful that you are an artist. And who believes that art is necessary and vital and transformative.
Really lovely piece!
Thank you so much for reading!
Thank you for reading! And I hope you enjoy going back to the novel.