Comments | scarlettina: The Mask of Apollo by Mary Renault, time, art, and mortality

scarlettina

The Mask of Apollo by Mary Renault, time, art, and mortality

Jan 30, 2015 08:11

I received Mask of Apollo as a Chanukah gift from JB. I'd heard of Mary Renault--even had her work recommended to me, given my interest in the ancient world--but never actually read any of her books until now. I'm sorry I waited but glad that I finally got around to it. This volume brings to life ancient Athens and Syracuse through the actor ( Read more... )

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scarlettina February 3 2015, 15:34:42 UTC

The books are all on my radar. See my icon for my understanding of the limitations with which I am faced. :-)

butterflydrming February 3 2015, 06:53:32 UTC

Not only great writers leave us maps through time to find them. I have personal journals going back 27 years. I haven't read any in a long time, because the message only goes one way.

Sometimes, I think of destroying them, but when I was 20, I read he diary of Anais Nin. If she had thrown hers in the fire, I never would have met her that way. The art of a person is sometimes notably different from the person alone with her diary.