'The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you.
Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.'
Painting: Harold Harvey (1874-1941)
Words: Alan Bennett
I love it when that happens, don't you?
Sue xx
I do! Love that Harold Harvey painting, too! x
ReplyDeleteYes! And I also love it when a passage in a book I'm reading suddenly stops me short and makes me think 'Wow, I didn't know that/or that's so interesting'.
ReplyDeleteYes, I do. It sometimes happens in the most familiar of books, a favourite one read and re-read and then something jumps up and announces itself. xx
ReplyDeleteYep, I call those "Ah, it's not just me then" moments! :-) xxx
ReplyDeleteLove the words and the painting. Catriona
ReplyDeleteHow very lovely - words and painting, and agree wholeheartedly x
ReplyDeleteAlison in Wales x
I agree, it has happened to me many times reading a book. But don't you think it also happens when reading blogs? I do.
ReplyDeleteDefinintely. There is that occasional moment when you sit back and think to yourself 'That is why I follow you, you are exactly on my wavelength ... I know you.'
DeleteOther times of course there's the ... 'what the bloody hell is she on about now!!' ;-)
This is so true.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.