RE: JCO: Oates Quotations

all,

this is one reason why i love Bellefleur above all
other books by anyone. the below says it all. a gothic
book that could not be real, but when you are reading
it you cannot help believing it IS real...

cheers

rob

--- "Wade,Kelli L." wrote:
>
> I love the "intro" to Bellefleur ... "imagination's
> laws" - what a
> concept ...
>
> This is a work of the imagination, and must obey,
> with both humility and
> audacity, imagination's laws. That time twists and
> coils and is, now,
> obliterated, and then again powerfully present; that
> "dialogue" is in
> some cases buried in the narrative and in others
> presented in a
> conventional manner; that the implausible is granted
> an authority and
> honored with a complexity usually reserved for
> realistic fiction: the
> author has intended. Bellefleur is a region, a state
> of the soul, and it
> does exist; and there, sacrosanct, its laws are
> utterly logical.
>






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