Night 11
Childhood seen sideways
Readings
- poem Fern Hill Read at Poets.org →
- essay Once More to the Lake
- story
Childhood looks different from the inside than it does looking back. Thomas remembers a farm that may never have existed as he describes it. White returns to a lake he visited as a boy and finds his own mortality waiting. Joyce sends a boy across Dublin on an errand for a girl, and the errand teaches him something he didn't want to learn. Watch for the moment in each piece when the child's world cracks open and the adult world floods in.
Journal entry coming soon.