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Posted: Sat 13:51, 27 Jul 2013 Post subject: As I was walking up to the church this morning |
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it has a "Heads I win, tails you lose" ring to it.In any event, Langan comes to King's defense by celebrating rather than damning King's way with characterization--"We never forget his characters. They live,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], they breathe"--and by arguing that the best of his work is "resonant,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," by which she means "It's about soul. Our American soul, perfectly expressed and challenged and loved by the American icon that is Stephen King." But I don't think "resonance" is a sufficiently precise term to help us. All poems and stories and songs resonate with something--but not all resonate with the same things or in the same ways. Allen's love for the beautiful language he finds in literary fiction is important here, because often what such language does is to illuminate the everyday. Consider this luminous moment from Marilynne Robinson's Gilead: As I was walking up to the church this morning, I passed that row of big oaks by the war memorial--if you remember them--and I thought of
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