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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grainne who wrote (22835)	6/11/1998 9:00:00 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

And I forgot Victoria Holt! Loved her. And a writer named Gene Stratton Porter (Keeper of the Bees, Girl of the Limberlost). About Anais Nin---no- she most certainly did not run with the Ask God crowd, did she? When I was 26, and going through a divorce from my college love, living on my own for the first time, and trying to grow up, I began reading again. (I think most of us stop reading during the educational process or are limited to our fields of study-like you with poetry, or as I read only theatre) In particular, I remember Nin and Jong's Fear of Flying. These were influential because they extended the boundaries that had always surrounded my life and upbringing. They were illustrations of women who not only accepted themselves, their own intellects, their needs, their differences, but gloried in them. They freed me in my thinking (though not necessarily in my behavior!). In a way, they turned me into the very ordinary, stable woman I am--because I choose to be her after accepting there are viable alternatives to being her. Not long ago I found Nin's last diary, which I'd never read, at the library. I brought it home and read bits of it. Found it unbelievably self-indulgent and boring, though she was a terrifically poetic and descriptive writer. Obviously she just spoke to me at a certain time of my life. Like Thomas and his Stumpy-tailed Bear. Hmmmm---This makes me think we need to not only choose good literature for our children, but be careful of the stage at which we introduce it. To Kill a Mockingbird was a much better example of independent thinking and moral choices for an adolescent than Fear of Flying would have been!