Monday, June 23, 2008

Living on expectation.

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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