Reading, Writing, Thinking

I wrote a longish post yesterday about The Deptford Trilogy, very interesting and thoughtful, and then lost it before it saved. I won't bother trying to reconstruct it. The gist was that the concerns of faith and redefinition -- through the major characters in the trilogy, all of whom redefine themselves in some major way including new names -- mesh here, as both are ways of making a connection between the self and the general world; a connection, that is, that makes sense and that makes continued thinking existence possible. But since the point of these entries is to reach the conclusions, now that I've reached it, I have no interest in working out again how I got to it.

You'll just have to take my word that it was interesting. If you've read Davies, you won't have to take my word that the books were first-rate. If you haven't, you're missing something wonderful.

dmh