tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post6495550013143841011..comments2024-03-28T12:59:41.910-04:00Comments on NeverEnding Story: One Man's Maple Moon: Memory Tanka by Marilyn Humbert Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐http://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post-80914836182848299612013-02-01T08:27:28.586-05:002013-02-01T08:27:28.586-05:00The contrasts between clear memories of the past a...The contrasts between clear memories of the past and tangled relationships of the present are psychologically effective, reminding me of Virgina Woolf's "Moments of Beings."<br /><br />Woolf asserts that these moments of being, these flashes of awareness, reveal a pattern hidden behind the cotton wool of daily life, and that we, "I mean all human beings--are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of art; that we are parts of the work of art." But the individual artist is not important in this work. Instead she says of all people, "We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself" (72).<br /><br />-- An excerpt from "Moments of Being in Virginia Woolf's Fiction" by Nicole L. Urquhart, http://writing.colostate.edu/gallery/matrix/urquhart.htm<br /> Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐https://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.com