Really powerful Sendak quote

[bunnyjadwiga]

"What I love is reading," Sendak said, sitting down at the table. "And air. Air when at night you open the window by your bed and the curtain lifts. Late at knight, I am reading 'The Awkward Age.' [Henry] James is poisonous. He is venomous. What I am doing now is wrestling. Do you know that beautiful letter that John Keats wrot to his brother about the making of a soul, the soul of the artist. I don't want to draw the soul. I just want to be in that life. I don't want to be a monster."

The New Yorker, April 17, 2006

And yes, this has stirred up thoughts for me.

Especially in the words of an acquaintance of mine:
"Even monsters don't want to be misunderstood." - J. von Culin.

Comments

[fnoxib.livejournal.com]

late at Knight.

heh.

an interesting time, indeed.