Wildheart: The Daring Adventures of John Muir

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I loved Michelle so much,I envy her strength I perpetually go on inaugurating myself, opening and closing circles of life, throwing them aside, withered, impregnated with the past. Sometimes she rebelled distantly: life is long ... She feared the days, one after another, without surprises, of pure devotion to a man. To a man who would freely use all of his wife's forces for his own bonfire, in a serene, unconscious sacrifice of everything that wasn't his own personality. When Lispector began writing, in March 1942, she was still a law student at the Faculdade Nacional de Direito ( National Law School), and was also working as a journalist. In February, she had transferred to the newspaper A Noite ( The Night), once one of the glories of Brazilian journalism but by then under the direction of the dictatorial Getúlio Vargas government. She had published some stories and journalism, and turned to one of her colleagues, Francisco de Assis Barbosa, for help with the novel she had begun writing. She pieced the book together by jotting down her ideas in a notebook whenever they occurred to her. To concentrate, she quit the tiny maid’s room in the apartment she shared with her sisters and brother-in-law and spent a month in a nearby boardinghouse, where she worked intensely. At length the book took shape, but she feared it was more a pile of notes than a full-fledged novel. [5] Her great friend Lúcio Cardoso, a slightly older novelist, assured her that the fragments were a book in themselves. Barbosa read the originals chapter by chapter, but Clarice vividly rejected his occasional suggestions: “When I reread what I’ve written,” she told him, “I feel like I’m swallowing my own vomit.” [5] I started reading with some obvious associations. Firstly, the title. He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life , it is Joycean Stephen Dedalus in his quest of own identity.

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The story of Clarice Lispector debut novel starts with Joana, a child prodigy, gifted with a rare sensibility for the natural world, a restlessness and a thirst for meaning. Before the end of the book Joana will experience the loss of loved ones, life among strangers, physical passion and devotion to her husband, jealousy and depression. But all these intrusions of the outside world pale in comparison with the brightness and intensity of her inner life. Joana is both intriguing and aloof for the people around her, running one moment hot, the other icy cold and analytical, judgemental. Yet for me she is consistent over the years in her enthusiasm for life in all its aspects, physical and metaphysical, and in her despair at the vastness and indifference of the universe. Sketchy - not in a dubious sense, but just loose - in both art and story. There were loose ends everywhere. The prose is fluent, hallucinogenic at times, alight with figurative images and sometimes resistant to linear logic and analysis: this is writing that has to be felt rather than merely understood and so has an appeal to somewhere more visceral than just the brain. Wild Heart is the second book in the Viper's Heart Duet. I loved Cement Heart and so happy that there was going to be more to Viper and Michelle's story! It was never an easy road for these two but they found each other. But, can they manage to keep each other?the moment I try to speak not only do I fail to express what I feel but what I feel slowly becomes what I say.’ She wrote "The Dark Swallows" while she was very young, basing the main plot on a true story told to her by a next-door neighbour about her mother and brothers during and after the Spanish Civil War. Before republishing many years later, she felt some revision was needed. The story is the same but she trusts that anyone re-reading it might find it enhanced by the revisions, while new readers might be satisfied. Even without the epigraph from James Joyce— He was alone. He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life —I would’ve recognized the influence of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man on the novel. Its beginning is a delight as the young protagonist plays with and thinks about words: “She went over to the little table where the books were, played with them by looking at them from a distance.”

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Bored and restless, she arrives for yet another mind-numbing winter season at the Jekyll Island Millionaire’s Club. There is nothing new under the sun…or so she thinks until she meets Joseph Bennett, the visiting reverend. Siužeto labai daug nėra: toks tarsi brandos romanas, kaip mergaitė lieka našlaite ir užaugusi išteka. Įvykių minimaliai, skyrelių daug, bet jie plaukiojantys - tai apie tą, tai apie aną. Didysis romano grožis ir stiprybė - sąmonės srautas, nuostabiai parašytas ir labai tikslingas. Pas Joyce'ą arba ir Woolf sąmonės srautas kartais būna toks truputį random - atskleisti dar vieną perspektyvą, leist mums pasibūt kokio nors Leopoldo galvoje. Pas Lispector tarsi irgi, jis išjudina pasakojimą, daro jį visiškai netvarų, virpantį ir chaotišką. Kaip ir ta pati Žoana, iš kurios perspektyvos mums viskas rodoma. Grožis - gyvenimo "tiesos", atrandamos ne Apmąstymuose ar kokiame nors Įvykyje, o tiesiog kasdienybėj, lekiant, vienai minčiai verčiantis per kitą, ties nė viena labiau neapsistojant.I got that Joana was often unhappy and happy at the same time; that she was disassociated from other people, that she was having trouble integrating her self with her body, that she had a horror of being trapped and an obsession with freedom. All of that is real to me. Near to the Wild Heart does not have a conventional narrative plot. It instead recounts flashes from the life of Joana, between her present, as a young woman, and her early childhood. These focus, like most of Lispector's works, on interior, emotional states. I'm sorry, my dear Viper, I'm afraid I've fallen out of love with you. You were too much of a selfish, grumpy jerk for my liking, and despite all the laughs you managed to raise out of me, and the emotions you were able to stir inside of me, I need to move on from you. Most of her books have been published throughout Europe and in the USA, as well as in countries as diverse as Argentina, Iceland and Israel, while "Witch Fear" ("The Mysterious Appearance of Agnes" in USA) still sells in Germany ("Hoxentochter"). All of me swims, floats, crosses what exists with my nerves, I am nothing but a desire, anger, vagueness, as impalpable as energy.”

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Danny: They’re sending us stuff to listen to. They live closer to each other, so it makes sense for me to go down on half the days. I have a body and everything that I do is a continuation of my beginning; if the Mayan civilization doesn’t interest me it is because I have nothing in me that can connect with its bas-reliefs; I accept everything that comes from me because I am unaware of the causes and I may be trampling something vital without knowing it; this is my greatest humility… The book has been published as part of the complete works of Clarice Lispector by New Directions under the editorial direction of Benjamin Moser.

Not particularly blown away by the illustrations or storytelling, but the subject matter is what kept it interesting in this graphic novel biography of Muir who had an impact on national parks and nature/wildlife. I did not know much about him, so this taught me some things. I'm thinking in terms of format, maybe a picture book biography would have worked a bit better than a graphic novel biography? But that's my opinion. And so Joana is. A little live egg according to her father, a viper for her aunt, betrayed by her husband Otavio. Child, girl, woman. And whom is she for herself ? Stranger, with wild animal inside her, always diffrent from others, distant, hidden behind own dreams. Joana examining her life, her soul. Joana in the mirrors, in the rain, in the stars. Sadly a happy woman. Thoughts flow through her mind incessantly, her soul scattered on millions atoms, sliding from one truth to the other, and still questions and more questions. What would become of Joana. Born in London, brought up in West Yorkshire, and living some 20 years in Spain before finally settling in Bath, a city totally unknown to her before her arrival there, these very different places forged her writing career as well as her character. She has worked as a cow girl, a secretary, a teacher of English as a foreign language among other things, as well as writing books and being a wife and mother. In Spain she was always rescuing street dogs; in Bath she somehow managed to acquire as many as 5 horses (looked after by her daughters). One of her best-loved books, and which received many fan letters from young readers, was "Just a Dog", a partially true story of how Shadow became a much loved member of the family and who eventually was brought to Bath because of her astonishing faithfulness and intuition. Me: By the way, how is the prosthetic? I read that you’re finding it hard to use as it fits to the knee you dislocated at Reading Fest in ’94? Don't get me wrong; he didn't cheat or anything but you know how they say some things you can apologize for but once they're said, they can't be forgotten... Even though, Michelle forgave him, I can't imagine how hard it would be to forget them.