Posted by Dinah on November 20, 2002, at 17:51:12
In reply to Re: OK, I ended up reading the book » Dinah, posted by Ritch on November 19, 2002, at 22:57:24
Thanks Ritch. :) It was kind of you to indulge me.
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> Unconditional love either *happens* or it doesn't given any time (and it happens to everybody sometime or other-albeit fleetingly). It really exists at the moment the person who is feeling the unconditional love experiences it. So it is REAL in a subjective sense. So Jake, Mick, Dr. Copeland, and Singer all are *experiencing* this. It is REAL to them, but only at the *time* they are experiencing it. It is also IRRATIONAL in the sense that you describe.So you're saying that unconditional love is experienced rather than given? I hadn't thought of it that way. I'll have to give it some thought. I've always been rather suspicious of the concept of unconditional love, but I'll have to think of it in that context.
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> "How can a somewhat acceptable reality compete with a perfect fantasy?"
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> You have hit the nail on the head! I don't think it *can* compete with it. Perfect fantasies are the stuff that makes the world go round. It seems that Southern writers somehow wander towards this topic somehow-and I always get drawn to it. Other suggestions might be Robert Penn Warren's "World Enough and Time" and Faulkner's "Light In August".
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Thanks for the suggestions. I was so drawn to this book and I really didn't expect to be. In general the critical acclaim of a book has an inverse relationship to how much I like it. But this subject really attracted me and I would like to explore it more. I've kind of noticed while reading Hunter and then Awakenings that sometimes fiction can convey more truth than nonfiction.Thanks again,
Dinah
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