tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934096967055481899.post8028069128468457358..comments2024-03-04T11:22:53.502-05:00Comments on Fifty Books Project 2023: Howards End by EM ForsterFifty Books Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08640286429668778869noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934096967055481899.post-17267289652566711542013-01-16T17:04:58.332-05:002013-01-16T17:04:58.332-05:00Thanks for the input. I really wish I remembered ...Thanks for the input. I really wish I remembered this book well enough to respond better!<br /><br />However, I will say that since I read this I read A Passage to India, and it seems like it's written by a totally different guy.Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12500451355263180972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934096967055481899.post-41844153146088867592013-01-14T00:07:18.441-05:002013-01-14T00:07:18.441-05:00Margaret's choice is certainly surprising, but...Margaret's choice is certainly surprising, but I don't think it is a gross offense against verisimilitude. Opposites often attract in long term relationships, as we seek to find in our partner what we lack in ourselves. Even so, Margaret took on a harder case than she knew, as we are told: "For there was one quality in Henry for which she was never prepared, however much she reminded herself of it: his obtuseness. He simply did not notice things, and there was no more to be said." <br /><br />That she persisted, and forgave, and persisted again stretches modern credulity further, since most of us join Helen in saying, "I can't, and won't attempt difficult relations." An older wisdom is required here, an inner light, more visible to Forster in 1910 than to us 100 years later. He only saw the beginning of "the inner darkness in high places that comes with a commercial age."<br />Ingenieurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11908827597681474886noreply@blogger.com