Comments on: Three Quotes about Non-Reading http://www.girldetective.net/?p=1004 Reading, Writing, Movies and Mothering in Minneapolis, Mostly Tue, 12 May 2026 07:22:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: girldetective http://www.girldetective.net/?p=1004&cpage=1#comment-8913 girldetective Sat, 04 Aug 2007 00:47:41 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=1004#comment-8913 Kate, thanks for the quote. I have long used novels as guides to life, for better or for worse. And LC, you are part of the club who remembers both Metropolitan and the quote (which I could have sworn had the word review in it, but didn't!) that my friends Rock Hack, JV, and AH all share. And I'm not sure I understood Orlando, now that I think about it. Kate, thanks for the quote. I have long used novels as guides to life, for better or for worse.

And LC, you are part of the club who remembers both Metropolitan and the quote (which I could have sworn had the word review in it, but didn’t!) that my friends Rock Hack, JV, and AH all share. And I’m not sure I understood Orlando, now that I think about it.

]]> By: Lazy Cow http://www.girldetective.net/?p=1004&cpage=1#comment-8877 Lazy Cow Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:49:39 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=1004#comment-8877 Silly me, I didn't realise you'd turned your comments back on. Comes from reading everyone in Bloglines I suppose. I remember that quote from "Metropolitan" and I haven't seen that movie in, what, 15 years? ! I'm reminded of a delightful quote from "Diary of a Provincial Lady" by E.M. Delafield: "Am asked what I think of 'Harriet Hume' but an unable to say, as I have not read it. Have a depressed feeling that this is going to be another case of 'Orlando' about which was perfectly able to talk most intelligently until read it, and found myself unfortunately unable to understand it". Silly me, I didn’t realise you’d turned your comments back on. Comes from reading everyone in Bloglines I suppose.
I remember that quote from “Metropolitan” and I haven’t seen that movie in, what, 15 years? ! I’m reminded of a delightful quote from “Diary of a Provincial Lady” by E.M. Delafield: “Am asked what I think of ‘Harriet Hume’ but an unable to say, as I have not read it. Have a depressed feeling that this is going to be another case of ‘Orlando’ about which was perfectly able to talk most intelligently until read it, and found myself unfortunately unable to understand it”.

]]> By: Kate http://www.girldetective.net/?p=1004&cpage=1#comment-8876 Kate Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:24:27 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=1004#comment-8876 I swore I wasn't going to comment as much, but I read this today in the Post and thought it was a wonderful counterpoint to the quotes you -rightly- took issue with above. "A wise person (my mother, actually) once observed that it was essential to read novels, because otherwise people would not know how to behave. They would encounter problems of the heart that would be insoluble, save for the education they had received in watching the great characters of fiction struggle to make moral choices." --David Ignatius http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ article/2007/07/25/AR2007072501879.html?hpid=opinionsbox1 I swore I wasn’t going to comment as much, but I read this today in the Post and thought it was a wonderful counterpoint to the quotes you -rightly- took issue with above.

“A wise person (my mother, actually) once observed that it was essential to read novels, because otherwise people would not know how to behave. They would encounter problems of the heart that would be insoluble, save for the education they had received in watching the great characters of fiction struggle to make moral choices.”

–David Ignatius

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
article/2007/07/25/AR2007072501879.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

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