26.01.2025 (2): Social-Writing

[sunshowerdandelion]

• I finished a book I'd been holding off for the longest time: Iris Murdoch's The Sea, The Sea. I did not expect it to get me emotional in the last 20 pages or so, but it did. I feel a bit cleansed and want to hug everyone now.
• As a result of the above, I'm counting my drabble session today and posting it here! I think I feel my sympathy coming back, which has always been the heart of my writing and reading.

I really did feel as the above. Towards the end of the novel I felt deep sympathy for everyone involved in this mess, which included me and for some reason my mother as well. This mess being life, of course. I don't think this is the value of literary fiction, since I can probably experience something just as profound by walking somewhere around nature, but I do think getting it from reading like this is a lot more fun. Also all art is useless anyway.

I beta read part of a fic today! That was fun. I also finished Girls' Last Tour, which was also fun, and which I did not expect would get nicely philosophical.

I also read a really good article on The Sea, The Sea by Helen de Cruz, who actually started reading around the same time as I did, but had a lot of better things to say: here!

Nice day. I really like Full Fathom Five (the song) now. Ding dong bell!