We’re all playing around the idea central to Henry James’s novella, “Beast in the Jungle.” The
protagonist is gripped by the idea that something will happen in his life. That
is his greatest anticipation and greatest apprehension.:
'Something will happen in my life'.
Isn’t that the unspoken kernel
driving most of our lives, until that day when we actually understand that that
something has already taken place, and the rest of our days are spent figuring
out:
"What is it that happened to my life?"— Posted by Sue (June 15 2008) in
NY Times, commenting on Judith Warners' article: Midlife crisis averted -
http://warner.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/19/midlife-crisis-averted/#comments
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