Oh, Henry!
I am in love with my theme, my protagonist – and his brother – and I am still #writing !
More: Henry James, OM, American #writer and #playwright -
www.britannica.com/biography/He... -and- www.theguardian.com/books/2016/f...
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“We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.” - #HenryJames (born: 15 April 1843)
she bent tenderly, in imagination, over marital, paternal Mr. Whatever-he-was, at home, eternally named, with all the honours and placidities, but eternally unseen and existing only as some one who could be financially heard from.
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She would have been able to say where they lived, and how, had the place and the way been but amenable to the positive;
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she felt, like the schoolboy, guilty enough—questioned, as honour went, as to her right so to possess, to dispossess, people who hadn't consciously provoked her.
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Recognition, for that matter, sat confessedly in her own eyes: she *knew* the three, generically, as easily as a schoolboy with a crib in his lap would know the answer in class;
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Milly had her back to the object, but her face very much to her young compatriot, the one who had spoken and in whose look she perceived a certain gloom of recognition.
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There was a finer instant, however, at which three ladies, clearly a mother and daughters, had paused before her under compulsion of a comment apparently just uttered by one of them and referring to some object on the other side of the room.
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Her friends straggled past, at any rate, in all the vividness of their absent criticism, and she had even at last the sense of taking a mean advantage.
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“He found all things come back to the question of what he personally might have been, how he might have led his life and 'turned out,' if he had not so, at the outset, given it up.”
– Henry James, The Jolly Corner
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We have this 2006 #biography of #HenryJames:
www.daveshootsbookseller.com/product/1084... #Booksky #author #BritLit
Yesterday's visit to @treadwells-books.bsky.social
Two genre greats (James and Barker)
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There were always people to snatch at one, and it would never occur to them that they were eating one up. They did that without tasting.
- Henry James, The wings of the dove
born on this day, 1843
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Leonardo da Vinci (1452), Guru Nanak (1469), #HenryJames (1843), Émile Durkheim (1858), Thomas Hart Benton (1889), Nikita Khrushchev (1894), Kim Il-sung (1912), Richard von Weiszäcker (1920), Harold Washington (1922), Seth Rogen (1982) & Emma Watson (1990) were born #OnThisDay...
"Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?"
✒ Novelist, short story writer, and critic #HenryJames was #BOTD 15 April 1843. #Literature #Writing
She could wonder if they would be different should she go back with that glamour attached; and she could also wonder, if it came to that, whether she should ever go back.
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It came to her idly thus—for her humour could still play—that she didn't seem then the same success with them as with the inhabitants of London, who had taken her up on scarce more of an acquaintance.
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Partly, no doubt, they didn't so much as notice or know her, didn't even recognise their community of collapse with her, the sign on her, as she sat there, that for her too Europe was "tough."
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They were cut out as by scissors, coloured, labelled, mounted; but their relation to her failed to act—they somehow did nothing for her.
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It passed the time in a manner; but it seemed already the second line of defence, and this notwithstanding the pattern, so unmistakable, of her country-folk.
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That perhaps was the moral of a menaced state of health—that one would sit in public places and count the Americans.
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She gave herself up at last, and it was a consummation like another: what she should have come to the National Gallery for to-day would be to watch the copyists and reckon the Baedekers.
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and recognising not less promptly that they had ever new lights for her—new lights on their own darkness.
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She was struck with the circumstance that the great museum, early in August, was haunted with these pilgrims, as also with that of her knowing them from afar, marking them easily, each and all,
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they attached themselves in especial, with mixed results, to the surprising stream of her compatriots.
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They found, her eyes, it should be added, other occupation as well, which she let them freely follow: they rested largely, in her vagueness, on the vagueness of other visitors;
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and then on that of her being more tired than she had meant, in spite of her having been so much less intelligent.
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Milly indeed at present fixed her eyes more than elsewhere on the appearance, first, that she couldn't quite, after all, have accounted to an examiner for the order of her "schools,"
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There were chairs in scant clusters, places from which one could gaze.
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The vistas and approaches drew her in this way from room to room, and she had been through many parts of the show, as she supposed, when she sat down to rest.
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