Day 2

Already, I had borken my resolve, but I'm much happier. That's my problem. (I can't help but laugh about it.) I once met someone who told me that he would never date his ex-es as a principle. I don't have that kind of resolve. I am too rooted in habits. I found my answer to my own question. But never mind that, I found (but perhaps it is more accurate to say re-discovered) an excellent writer: Graham Greene. I remember shunning his books on library shelves. That god-awful cover of the quiet american with the movie poster naked back of some girl. So awful, I had sworn off Graham Greene. I did read a page--and my immediate response back then was : Ugh, political. BUT now, I have read two of his short works: The Third Man and The Fallen Idol. Both excellent. Greene is of the opinion that the Fallen Idol is better for literary reasons, I disagree for the exact same reason. "The third man" was excellent precisely because it read so effortlessly. And it was funny. I am learning how important it is to have a sense of humor. It doesn't have to be laugh out loud kind of humor, but it has to be there. Every writer I admire has this humor, often not even detectable and they simply comes across as irony, sacarsm or something else, but they never fail to take a detached look at things and their characters and I like that. There is an absolutely fine line between absurdity and brilliance. I can't quite explain this right now, but maybe I will be able to at a later time.