house fic: hourglass [house/wilson, pg]

[_starrystarry]

hourglass
house; house, wilson; pg; 1,010 words
house is a man without preamble: "i've never made anything in your life easier, you know," he says. "you're acting like i should have been your personal hero or something, but i've never fixed anything for you." spoilers for "wilson's heart."

Comments

[woldy]

Very nice & there's some great lines - the freshly peeled scab simile (which I'm guessing reflects House's frame of mind) & this passage is lovely:
The apartment is clean. Isn’t Wilson supposed to go into a tailspin of rage and wreck everything around him, snap chairs in half with the force only a grief-stricken man has? But then again this isn’t the fall of Troy and Wilson’s always been neat.
If the fall of Troy had been brought about by smart doctors instead of largely boneheaded Greeks, it probably woulda been neat and no less tragic for that fact.

[_starrystarry]

Thanks much for reading. I would go on some crazed rant of how House is actually pretty similar to the Iliad, but I shan't because school's out for the summer and I need to get used to that. ;)

[narcoleptic_ll]

Sorry to barge in, but I would've really liked to read about House beeing similar to the Iliad. When you're back to school maybe?

[_starrystarry]

Ahaha, I'm happy to oblige! I can't turn my English major self off just because it's summer

[narcoleptic_ll]

Thanks for the congrats, although I have to say that I wouldn't mind reading 100 pages of this. I like to read analysis of things in general, especially when there are parallels to be drawn and yours strikes me as an especially accurate one.

I also have to admit that I'm not very familiar with Greek literature; I remember having to read it at school, but that was a long time ago and I was much more interested in physics and basketball back then, than books. However, from what I do remember, the hero thingy is what gets me the most, because that’s exactly what keeps pulling me back to House, the character and by extension, the show. He keeps choosing humanity over “divinity” even though he tries very hard not to be human; not to feel, not to care; and that in it self is a contradiction, which means that House is his best ally and worst enemy at the same time, and what could possibly be more tragic than that?

Thanks a lot for taking the time and effort to answer me; you’ve made a very happy person out of me =)

[_starrystarry]

You're welcome, but it's my pleasure. If I get my way I'll spend my time analyzing popular culture movements and tying them to the literary past, hopefully this'll involve some writing and some teaching, but since I just finished my first year at university I think that's a way off yet.

You by no means have to be familiar with Greek epics; I'm aware the above comment does make me sound like quite the literary snob and for that I apologize. But I do love how the notion of "hero" gets transformed over the ages. I'm really partial to nineteenth and twentieth century stuff (and Shakespeare. my love for Shakespeare knows no bounds), and it's great, for instance, to see how people like Dostoevsky or Woolf or, hell, how about someone who's alive and people actually read - García Márquez, Jonathan Safran Foer, Helen Fielding who wrote the Bridget Jones books - craft their heroes to meet the expectations of society. I think literature (and television, which I actually think is the best medium to tell a story in our "information age," but that