- Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster
Saturday, September 18, 2010
"For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and - by some sad, strange irony - it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy."
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A wonderful wonderful thought. I think I have always felt it, but could have never pinned it down to something so natural.
By the way, I am also reading Forster currently - A Passage to India
OMG! You know what this means? For the first time ever, we're reading the same book at the same time! :) Would love to catch up with you on how far you've gotten..
Finally! I have just started though, less than 50 pages so far. I was prejudiced against the book - an Englishman's account of pre-independence India, how 'not-biased' it could be after all. But so far I have only admired Forster's writing :)
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