Of Profound Truthes and Pierrefonds
Nov. 17th, 2005 07:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
felis_ultharusOne of Timothy Findley's characters on what literature is:
In other news, the Catholic church was so afraid about our rally protesting anti-abortionist, anti-queer group Québec Vie that they decided not to host Québec Vie's conference at the Oratoire St-Joseph. Instead, Québec Vie decided to bus over to a Protestant church in Pierrefonds.
Since Pierrefonds is impossible to reach, especially at that hour -- it's the part of Island of Montreal marked on maps "Here There Be Dragons," and I've yet to see proof it exists -- the protest march seemed to be going nowhere in particular when I ducked out of it. Still, it's always a good day when you've terrified the Catholic Church :)
These characters drawn on the page by the makers of literature ... are distillations of our thwarted selves. We are their echoes and their shadows. They move us through our muddied lives at a clarified pace. What we cannot describe, they articulate. What we cannot imagine, they reveal. What we cannot endure, they survive.We need a word in English for when someone first articulates what you've always felt.
In other news, the Catholic church was so afraid about our rally protesting anti-abortionist, anti-queer group Québec Vie that they decided not to host Québec Vie's conference at the Oratoire St-Joseph. Instead, Québec Vie decided to bus over to a Protestant church in Pierrefonds.
Since Pierrefonds is impossible to reach, especially at that hour -- it's the part of Island of Montreal marked on maps "Here There Be Dragons," and I've yet to see proof it exists -- the protest march seemed to be going nowhere in particular when I ducked out of it. Still, it's always a good day when you've terrified the Catholic Church :)
