Finished reading Tess of d'Urbervilles.

For the first time, I can be affected so much by a classics. I can ever so amazed myself. The ending, though just and logical, is not what I would favour. My heart was so much in anguish that I had to re-read the last few paragraphs just so that I got the meaning right. So sad.. so tragic. There's a solemnity in the air that one just feel like one should leave off reading classics for a while, for one cannot bear the merriment of happy endings as most classics would entail. And a spiritual book would do good for my soul at the moment, as this classics also began to affect my faith in God.

Faith or fanatism? That was clearly illustrated by the sudden conversion of Alec d'Urbervilles as he converted, only later to backslide and ...

[interrupted by a call.. too late to cont to blog.. to be cont..]


posted by lil piggie at 12:35 AM