Re: homes of smith and his parents
Posted by:
Ludde (IP Logged)
Date: 19 February, 2003 05:18PM
Yes, the effects of the industrial revolution; people leaving their old homesteads for the cities; scattering families.
Hmm.. Nowadays most young adults feel that they can't become emotionally independent adults unless they separate (isolate) themselves from their parents in geometrical distance. I wonder if this (hysterical?) behavior is a sign of confusion. (Well, many other animals work in the same way.) In the old days when family members of different generations stayed together, people may have been more grounded... so maybe this situation was ideal for Smith's concentration. I am just musing a little.
Off topic, I would like to say that, although I have a few other favorite authors, Lovecraft, Dunsany, Machen, and Vance, all who have a great command over english language, it is really only Clark Ashton I truly enjoy reading aloud. After a reading I am left breathless and dizzy, not from the effort, but from emotional turmoil around fear or ecstatic beauty, or a combination of both! I don't mind having a glass of wine at the same time (something I would recommend to anyone who hasn't tried it... but it shouldn't be too often of course!)
Ludde
p.s. If my language sounds a bit awkward in places it is because I am born Swedish.