Not Sure About the Heart
Nov. 2nd, 2018 09:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thisnewdayHaving FINALLY finished Jay Parini's bio of John Steinbeck--a consumation months in the making and devoutly wished, lol--I've decided to re-read Cannery Row, which I once loved and have a new copy of on my perilously-stacked bookcase, as well as Tortilla Flat, which I also have but had never read.
I've also ordered Sweet Thursday, which was written as a sequel to Cannery Row and was later incorporated into the movie of that title which starred Nick Nolte and Debra Winger. Which I also have on my perilously-stacked bookcase. And which, if the literary landslide doesn't bring me down, I'm also gonna watch.
I'm sort of wondering how I'm gonna feel, this time, about Cannery Row. The first time I read it was during my pre-hippie, bohemian wannabe days, and life has changed, just a little, in the exactly half-century since then. I absolutely loved it then and wonder if I'll still love it now. Same with the movie.
I actually have a Bantam Paperback copy of Sweet Thursday among my perilously piled periodicals. (There are some magazines in there too, I'm almost sure of it. I totally respect and support the responsible use of literary devices such as consonance, assonance, dissonance, and alliteration. And I mention all of them only because I don't want any to feel left out, not because I no longer remember the effing differences between them.)
But the previously-mentioned paperback has such teeeeny, tiiiiiny print that I'd probably go blind trying to read it. So we know the eyes have changed, since our youthful stroll down the streets of Cannery Row.
We're just, you know, not sure about the heart...
LPK
Dreamwidth
11.2.2018
I've also ordered Sweet Thursday, which was written as a sequel to Cannery Row and was later incorporated into the movie of that title which starred Nick Nolte and Debra Winger. Which I also have on my perilously-stacked bookcase. And which, if the literary landslide doesn't bring me down, I'm also gonna watch.
I'm sort of wondering how I'm gonna feel, this time, about Cannery Row. The first time I read it was during my pre-hippie, bohemian wannabe days, and life has changed, just a little, in the exactly half-century since then. I absolutely loved it then and wonder if I'll still love it now. Same with the movie.
I actually have a Bantam Paperback copy of Sweet Thursday among my perilously piled periodicals. (There are some magazines in there too, I'm almost sure of it. I totally respect and support the responsible use of literary devices such as consonance, assonance, dissonance, and alliteration. And I mention all of them only because I don't want any to feel left out, not because I no longer remember the effing differences between them.)
But the previously-mentioned paperback has such teeeeny, tiiiiiny print that I'd probably go blind trying to read it. So we know the eyes have changed, since our youthful stroll down the streets of Cannery Row.
We're just, you know, not sure about the heart...
LPK
Dreamwidth
11.2.2018
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Date: 2018-11-04 07:27 pm (UTC)Steinbeck's Weird Supernatural Thing, as I say, was this sort of time tunnel that opened up between 1932 and 1906 so that when he went scavenging in tide pools with Doc Ricketts and Joseph Campbell, he ended up in the Chinese fishing village that got burned down.
My Little Store sold hot sauce and other chili-themed products. I made the hot sauces from my own recipes, and some of them had Steinbeck-themed names: Beast of Eden; The Chilis of Wrath etc. :-)