I D E A
by Gilda Davidian
I read Reborn, excerpts from Susan Sontag’s journals and notebooks from 1947-1963 about a year ago, and I love going back to leaf through it and hear Sontag’s voice mature and her life change through the documented years. Reading Reborn made me feel closer to the flame of life. Sontag’s spirit, strength and passion are clearly channeled through her vibrant opinions and emotions.
I recently came across this post on the Creatures of Comfort blog (which is a daily stop for me) that had a few quotes by Sontag (including the one above) from the New York Times. The quote rekindled my love for not just her writing, but for her way of thinking. Read more about Sontag and her life HERE.
this is really beautiful. something I’d really like to get better at.
thank you for this idea gilda and susan.
This one is amazing:
Love and Disease
“Being in love (l’amour fou) a pathological variant of loving. Being in love = addiction, obsession, exclusion of others, insatiable demand for presence, paralysis of other interests and activities. A disease of love, a fever (therefore exalting). One “falls” in love. But this is one disease which, if one must have it, is better to have often rather than infrequently. It’s less mad to fall in love often (less inaccurate for there are many wonderful people in the world) than only two or three times in one’s life. Or maybe it’s better always to be in love with several people at any given time.”
•
I need to pick up On Photography again. I may have a better perspective this time around.