All Deviations

*Vingilote:iconVingilote:

Greta aka Wivylma  
  • Status: deviantART Subscriber
  • Rhyming Poet
  • Female/United States
  • Offline for 6h 11m 36s
  • Deviant since Aug 27, 2006, 8:50 PM
  • Subscribed until Sep 9, 2008, 9:09 AM
  • 36 Deviations
  • 5 Scraps [browse]
  • 414 Deviation Comments
  • 24 Deviant Comments
  • 3,009 Pageviews

Old Book Friends

Journal Entry: Tue Jul 8, 2008, 6:31 AM
  • Mood: Tired
  • Listening to: Office hums
  • Reading: The Inheritance of Loss
  • Eating: Dry Cereal
The mind is its own place, and in it self
Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.
What matter where, if I be still the same,
And what I should be, all but less then hee
Whom Thunder hath made greater?*

--Paradise Lost


I recently returned to an old book-friend of mine, Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being. It's been four or five years since we spoke last, because I hadn't invited him to a permanent spot in my bookshelf. For some reason, probably because things are very strange for me right now, I found myself thinking about this book-friend more and more, and I finally picked up my phone and arranged to see him again.

I was aware that this book-friend had a noticeable influence on my thinking. We have a complicated history, which begins with fascination and repulsion, all mixed together, when I first discovered him in Japan. I've known for quite a while that there are maybe a dozen or two dozen motifs or ideas that the book-friend gave me that I see in my own life pretty regularly. I can't stand in a high place or listen to Beethoven without recalling him, even though it's been years since I saw him last. What I didn't know is how much of my thinking is similar to his thinking. Almost every page has me wondering why it is that my life has proceeded the way it has since I met him. Is he just my soulmate, one of those rare book-friends who shares most of my worldview? That seems most likely. Still, it is possible that some of the decisions I have made have subconsciously drawn upon him, pattering my own life according to his themes.

*Disclaimer: Following the above reasoning, according to Milton, might make us like fallen angels resigning themselves to live in hell. Oh well.

Devious Comments

~Nynae:iconNynae: 3 days 18 hours ago
I miss you too, pretty Greta lady!

--
"The idea that counts in science must lead to fruitful work, not only to speculation that does not engender empirical test, no matter how much it stretches the mind."

~ Stephen J. Gould
~zebabeth:iconzebabeth: Jul 8, 2008, 7:04:59 AM
thanks for the friends list !! :hug:

--
*********************************************
:butterflytwo: My site : [link] :silentkitty:
~tomba92:icontomba92: Jun 22, 2008, 7:04:03 AM
Hey, great gallery!
I was just wondering if you wanted to see my stuff?

--
*Fujifilm-Club
^^^^^^^^^^^
Visit it !!!
~KelseyTheFox:iconKelseyTheFox: May 8, 2008, 6:20:55 PM
Puh! No need to thank me! It was great!
*Himmapaan:iconHimmapaan: Mar 25, 2008, 5:31:18 PM
Thank you so much for the favourites and the watch! :)
Flagged as spam
!jessicamadison:iconjessicamadison: Mar 1, 2008, 5:29:33 AMFlagged as spam
This comment is flagged as spam.
Wow! You really are a brilliant poet, aren't you?

Why don't you join the poetry contest from [link] ?


It's free and every nitwit such as myself who enters gets a small gift

but someone like you might win one of their $10 000 or $100 000 prizes.
~Sparkling-Runia:iconSparkling-Runia: Jan 27, 2008, 11:20:33 AM
Thank you for the watch! <3 :hug:

--
"To swim with the fish, one must fight the shark."

Nyoro~n..
~Taranir:iconTaranir: Oct 15, 2007, 2:39:47 PM
Thank you very much for the :+devwatch:! :love:
~Nynae:iconNynae: Mar 2, 2007, 10:00:21 PM
Greta! We need more kitten pictures!

--
"Dogs love me cuz I'm crazy sniffable" - Beastie Boys
~ssiegler:iconssiegler: Jan 10, 2007, 6:21:07 PM
Random deviant! Hello :wave:
Hidden By Owner
~KUMIKER:iconKUMIKER: Nov 2, 2006, 11:08:27 AMComment hidden by Owner
This comment is hidden and not visible to general public.
*onebardmojo:icononebardmojo: Sep 19, 2006, 9:28:48 PM
Thank you so soooo much for the fave!

--
Love is stronger than death. (Robert Fulghum)
~Gnaash:iconGnaash: Sep 8, 2006, 8:05:48 AM
Thanks for the Fave!
And Ms. Bora'k thanks you too.

--
Just Gnaash.
*Vingilote:iconVingilote: Sep 6, 2006, 6:51:30 PM
Mmmm. I'm loyal to the Tom Thumb mini donuts. Grease, sugar, and light fluffy donut. Mmmmmm.
~aethele:iconaethele: Sep 6, 2006, 12:12:26 PM
Wow, the mini-donuts were heavenly...... mmmmm.

--
unbeingdead isn't beingalive .... e.e. cummings
Hidden By Owner
~anonymousalcoholic:iconanonymousalcoholic: Sep 5, 2006, 7:01:11 AMComment hidden by Owner
This comment is hidden and not visible to general public.
*Vingilote:iconVingilote: Aug 31, 2006, 3:41:38 PM
You're going tomorrow too? Neat!

It's this mysterious mixture of strawberries and other things put into a blender. I recommend it to wash down the cheese curds! Sold at a stand near the Sky Ride.
~aethele:iconaethele: Aug 31, 2006, 2:40:37 PM
Ooh, nope, what's that?

It needs to be Friday -now-

--
unbeingdead isn't beingalive .... e.e. cummings
*Vingilote:iconVingilote: Aug 30, 2006, 6:06:08 PM
I like the milk too! Ever had the strawberry Treet? It's suprisingly good.
~aethele:iconaethele: Aug 30, 2006, 10:38:16 AM
Ok now I'm really hungry. Actually my bar-none favorite fair comestible is the bottomless glass of milk..... endless amounts of ice-cold milk with warm chocolate chip cookies. What could be better?

--
unbeingdead isn't beingalive .... e.e. cummings
*Vingilote:iconVingilote: Aug 29, 2006, 9:16:15 PM
But that describes everyone at the fair!

I like mini donuts, myself.
~aethele:iconaethele: Aug 29, 2006, 9:14:36 PM
Heehee..... yes, that's me, the fuzzy fluttering thing. With antenna! No, actually what you should look for is somebody stuffing her face with disgusting amounts of cheese curds and Pronto Pups. Mmm....

--
unbeingdead isn't beingalive .... e.e. cummings
*Vingilote:iconVingilote: Aug 29, 2006, 4:14:23 PM
Ooo, really? I'll be there on Friday. So if I see someone who looks like...erm...a white moth? I'll say hi!
~aethele:iconaethele: Aug 29, 2006, 4:04:11 PM
I am soooo going to the Minnesota state fair this weekend!!!!! It will be exciting..... I will eat a ridiculou amount of strange fried food on sticks..... mmmmm.

--
unbeingdead isn't beingalive .... e.e. cummings