When was the last time you read a classic? I mean by choice.
Not because it was assigned to you.
That is what I thought. Not often.
Sometimes I surprise myself. Last week I had a lot of time in a
waiting room with lots of people. The primary entertainment was
a HUGE big screen TV with DIVORCE COURT on the screen.
ALL Afternoon.
I was really glad I chose to carry a lightweight paperback edition of
The SEA WOLF with me. It was, as you may know, written in 1904.
Consequently, the language was often stilted and required my apt
attention.
The classic discourse between hedonism and humanism as told through
the narrative of the turn of the century seal hunters was actually quite
good. Gruesome and gory at times. But ever true to the topic and the, at
first, implausible characters attain credibility as the story progressed.
I was grateful to be called for my appointment because it gave me a break
from my heavy duty thinking and non-stop reading. And it was the appointment
that brought me to the waiting room in the first place!
Later that night, I proceeded to finish reading this historical novel.
I remembered it was on a high school reading list. I doubt I would have
appreciated it then.
Look at your bookshelf tonight for something you have not read in a long time.
Enjoy reading it as if for the first time. It may truly BE your first time.
