Thursday, July 5, 2007
Mr. Sample's first entry
Hello. I read Mr. Sheehy's admonition to use my own name after I had chosen this identity, so - sorry. I'll change if I can figure it out easily. I have read the first four chapters and can't understand why I'm not more enthusiastic about this writer. I admire her skill and I strongly feel the power of her characters and plots while I'm reading her work. Yes, she is obviously didactic and ideological, but I like other such writers, Jonathan Swift, for instance. Perhaps I simply don't my discomfort with racial issues: after all this time, I'm often unsure what to say or do about race in America. I don't mean to solve the problem, and I don't mean to decide how I should treat people I meet; I mean that I don't know how to react to racial bitterness or anger, much of which seems justified to me. And so I wonder if that confusion makes me reluctant to take Morrison more deeply into myself.
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Mr. Sample...Earnest Wilde would have been fine. I was really trying to avoid the email names like "surfingchica," ""babygyrl90" and "alexanderthegreat."
I love the way you put it--"take Morrison more deeply into myself"--suggesting what we as readers do (and what all teachers hope their students do).
Sorry S.O.S does not have you more excited. I just love those books with dysfunctional characters, supernatural elements, unexplainable plots (imagine trying to explain this book to someone who has not read it), and such sophisticated, but readable, diction. I lose track of time when I read her novels.
Sheehy
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