2/13/2023 0 Comments Dark soul 3 poiseThis time the Baroque sentence structures made perfect sense that complexity, so inextricably a part of the story being told, illuminates-even demonstrates-the perplexities of that story. After all, I'm much older and maybe even a little wiser now. But when Audible put The Turn of the Screw up for sale last October I thought it was time to give James another go. I’ve never gone back to try Portrait again. At the prompting of my wife (no, not the same woman), I have come to love Jane Austen-to scoff derisively at those who claim, “nothing happens” in her novels. Maybe what I remember as convolution was really excruciating precision-an exactness I lacked the patience to appreciate. Three decades later, I still retain the sense of hopelessness as I slogged from one vast paragraph of convoluted inner meditation to another. Thirty-some odd years ago, at the prompting-or insistence-of a girlfriend, I tackled Henry James’ Portrait of a Lady.
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