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[mrsronweasley]

I'm rereading At Swim, and every day I am tempted to quote the entire book, just read it out loud, from the highest mountain top I can find, to anyone who will listen, for years and years and years. Instead, I'll settle for quoting little bits, because if ever I was committed to anything, it is to spreading the love. And I get to use this icon almost entirely in context.

~*~

"She made a difference to me, your mother did. I came across her one time and I heard her singing."

"She does always be singing, all right."

"I felt I might belong. I might, God help me, be" --irrational, irrepresible, irresponsible, iron-brained, irascible, irksome, entirely irresistible-- "might be Irish," he said.

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Psst, sidebar.

Comments

[bathsweaver.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is nice.

[mrsronweasley.livejournal.com]

It's even better in context! *wheeeeedles* :D

[bathsweaver.livejournal.com]

I...tried it. At the beginning of the summer. But I was having trouble with the voice; it's so distinctive, it's a dialect, really, and I was trying to translate it, rather than absorb it and go with it, and that's not how you're supposed to read it. So I felt guilty and returned it.

But I'm reading your sidebar, and it really is wonderful, so I'm thinking I'll give it another go. Just, this time I won't try to force it. It's not going to make me cry, is it? I can't bear crying; or if it is, it'll at least put me back together at the end, right?

And, randomly,

::loffs you::

[mrsronweasley.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I get that. It IS hard to get through (I had that problem, but at the same time, felt an irrisistible pull towards the book. I still can't explain it, but I am forever grateful.) but it's so rewarding, you know? And it gets easier and then it's like riding a wave, so free and beautiful. It's good to take your time with it, too, I think, to savor the language. And yeah, don't force it. Let it come to you. ;)

It's not going to make me cry, is it? I can't bear crying; or if it is, it'll at least put me back together at the end, right?

Uhm. Well. Uh.

[bathsweaver.livejournal.com]

Uhm. Well. Uh.

::laughs::

I've put it on hold again from the library. Just be warned that I *will* come crying to you and get snot all over your shoulder when it breaks my heart.

{hugs}