October 05, 2002
34. Possession, A.S. Byatt
Books almost always outpace the movie adaptations, but never quite like this. I'm pretty much in awe of what Byatt did with this book, how she manages to tell a coherent story that crosses time and involves far more characters than the movie tried to. And she does it all using a combination of standard narrative, letters, and poetry. She talks about being a literary scholar and critic, the good and the bad. I realized how much I'd like to do that, although she raises some good questions. I mean, what's the point of spending your life analyzing someone else's words, right? But there is a meaning to it, a way of understanding another person's mind solely through the words they present. I know it's not curing the sick or anything, but to me it's more important, in a purely human sense, than adding numbers and counting dollars.
She wrote a lot about how distant Roland and Maud were, the constant image of an empty white bed to represent a sort of physical withdrawal and distance, of staying secluded in the realm of the pure mind. That's very appealing to me in many ways. Ultimately, I'm far more comfortable with my mind and my words than with anything else.
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