Monday, 4 April 2011

Icarus flying home # 12 in silence

I can see up your nostrich
Today, well tomorrow if you are reading today early because I am writing this last thing at night, my son Dan is sixteen - sigh and he is such a beautiful boy and such a joy. Yesterday he was talking to me about Of Mice and Men and how the most important part of the novel that everyone misses is the issue of loneliness, which Steinbeck does so well. And I know he is right, the solitariness of Steinbeck's work followed me through my own teenage years; how astute of him to be so critically attuned. But most of all he loves a good laugh - hallelujah to that! Here is the most Holy Order of Silent Monks saying just that: