Place and Identity
"The search for identity is the modern day pilgrimage"
Good morning everyone! I hope that everyone is well and that any holiday preparations are going smoothly. I like receiving books as presents, but I really like giving out books as presents and I am giving a few out this year and that is exciting for me. I like to read books with people to try to share the experience and also so that we can hopefully talk about what we have read. I’m still working my way through Stephen King’s On Writing book, but to be honest, I’ve been ignoring it the past several days. I’m still reading Carson McCullers’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and Harlan Ellison’s short story collection Dangerous Visions. Both are amazing reads. Sadly I don’t have a lot more to report. I watched a couple of videos that focused on a conversation between two Irish writers, John Banville and Neil Jordan (who is also a director of such films as Interview with the Vampire, The Crying Game, and Michael Collins just to name a few). The brief snippets I watched were informative, witty, and enlightening. Those videos are both on my Facebook page. The full length conversation is on YouTube and I will post the link below. Apparently it is part of a larger series about the city of Dublin and Irish writers. It is interesting how a place can influence a story, resonate with a reader, and can in some ways be a character within a story. I think a place can walk hand in hand with identity, and we are all a sum of the identities that we inhabit throughout our lives. Not sure if that is true, but it sounds true. There is a quote that I like that states “The search for identity is the modern day pilgrimage.” I’ll leave you today with that thought. Thanks for reading!
CeK
Dublin, One City, Many Stories (the Banville / Jordan conversation is Video 3)
https://irishwriterscentre.ie/video-series-dublin-one-city-many-stories/
