More cheerfully quoted in an Amanda Cross novel

[mrissa]

"Art, if it doesn’t start there, at least ends,
Whether aesthetics likes the thought or not,
In an attempt to entertain our friends." -- W. H. Auden

And this is no bad thing, especially if we have good and thoughtful friends.

(Thank you.)

Also, all right, Ms. Cross/Dr. Heilbrun, allrightallrightallright, I give, I went and requested some Auden from the library and put another bit on my Amazon list. But only a bit, because what I really thought I might want most was in the $70 range, and I thought I'd better try some of the other stuff first just to make sure. Uff da sheesh, with the Auden already. You got me. Now don't go obsessing on someone really odious in later novels; I already thought I might want to read more Auden, but I am capable of drawing rather firm boundaries on this sort of thing.

(Though you wouldn't know it from my library list.)

Comments

[pameladean]

*giggle*

There's nothing like the Auden obsession. There's a milder one with Stevie Smith, and of course a continuing low-level one with Middlemarch.

P.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

And I'm not, in theory, opposed to finding out whether I like Middlemarch. If she makes a good enough sideways case for it.

Anyway, if you're willing and able to lend me more of these, I don't think I will be sleeping again before I finish The Question of Max, and that's the end of the batch. So if there happened to be some kind of upcoming opportunity for exchanging read books for unread ones...possibly something that rhymes with "bunch tomorrow" or "crunch tomorrow"....

[pameladean]

Such timing! Yes, I'll bundle up the rest of them for you.

P.

[pameladean]

I'm just gonna give her all the rest of them. I like that one too, though I bounced off it the first time.

P.

[prettymuchpeggy.livejournal.com]

Tee hee! *smirk* (as she remember her last few author obsessions.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I love them. They have been just the right thing.

[txanne.livejournal.com]

It's the favorite Victorian novel of my dear friend the PhD student in Victorian lit. Not that I've read it yet, myself...hrm, maybe after Ink & Steel, which will be my reward for Being Done With The Unpacking. :-/