Do you know the feeling when something you are experiencing, a book, a piece of music, a movie, a work of art, is sad and you can tell it’s going to become even more sad… but you can’t stop now because it’s just so beautiful and well done? You have to take it to the end just so it’s complete, you have to finish it, fully knowing that it’ll sting for a while? “Bewilderment” has been like that for me. Tomorrow I will finish it–enough for today.
Yes, I do- fell to the ground weeping.
Think I am afraid to read the book but I will remember the title forever now.
I have learned to relish the enormity of this feeling. The most intense experience of this for me has always been with music. But the book I will never get over is BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE. I am still reeling from the movie WAR HORSE, which I cannot ever see again, though it was wonderful. I am almost feeling this when I see the United States currently floundering.