I angst about the strangest things.
Nov. 8th, 2009 09:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meganbmooreSo, I'm reading Wide Sargasso Sea (note: Reading for a chat and dreading the fact that I will be reading about Rochester, even an appropriately negative take on him, but I really like Jean Rhys's writing so far. Thoughts on her other books?) and I got it secondhand, and it has this passage from the first part underlines with a star beside it:
There are more ways than one of being happy, better perhaps to be peaceful and contented and protected, as i feel now, peaceful for years and long years, and afterwards I may...
And that is the only underlined passage in the whole book! There are a few other bits with marks beside them, but nothing else underlined, much less with a star beside it, and the only writing in it is a scribbled " safety dream p.60" at the very end. (I'm not to page 60 yet, so I don't actually know what's being referred to.) And so, naturally, instead of actually reading, I have spent the last while sitting here trying to figure out why they underlined it and what they thought.
There are more ways than one of being happy, better perhaps to be peaceful and contented and protected, as i feel now, peaceful for years and long years, and afterwards I may...
And that is the only underlined passage in the whole book! There are a few other bits with marks beside them, but nothing else underlined, much less with a star beside it, and the only writing in it is a scribbled " safety dream p.60" at the very end. (I'm not to page 60 yet, so I don't actually know what's being referred to.) And so, naturally, instead of actually reading, I have spent the last while sitting here trying to figure out why they underlined it and what they thought.