But more than that, I am at this very moment contemplating a newfestoon. Tell me if you think it a vain subtlety. I am beginning to feelthat we need a preliminary act of submission not only towards possiblefuture afflictions but also towards possible future blessings. I know itsounds fantastic; but think it over. It seems to me that we often,almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at thatmoment, we expected some other good. Do you know what I mean? On everylevel of our life--in our religious experience, in our gastronomic,erotic, aesthetic and social experience--we are always harking back tosome occasion which seemed to us to reach perfection, setting that up asa norm, and depreciating all other occasions by comparison. But theseother occasions, I now suspect, are often full of their own newblessings if only we would lay ourselves open to it. God shows us a newfacet of the glory, and we refuse to look at it because we're stilllooking for the old one. And of course we don't get that. You can't, atthe twentieth reading, get again the experience of reading Lycidas forthe first time. But what you do get can be in its own way as good.
I fully grant you that "wrath" can be attributed to God only by ananalogy. The situation of the penitent before God isn't, but is somehowlike, that of one appearing before a justly angered sovereign, lover,father, master, or teacher. But what more can we know about it than justthis likeness? Trying to get in behind the analogy, you go further andfare worse. You suggest that what is traditionally regarded as ourexperience of God's anger would be more helpfully regarded as whatinevitably happens to us if we behave inappropriately towards a realityof immense power. As you say, "The live wire doesn't feel angry with us,but if we blunder against it we get a shock."
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While growing up as a child in New Jersey, Schorr showed a compulsion for drawing at an early age and was enrolled in Saturday morning art classes by the age of five. Deeply affected by fantasy movies such as the 1933 classic King Kong and the early animated cartoons of Walt Disney and Max Fleischer, their influence along with comic books such as Mad would have a lasting effect on Schorr's developing visual vocabulary.
While most of the characters in Surfacing drift toward despair and spiritual death, the narrator struggles painfully, but withsome success, towards establishing bridges with others and a consequent commitment to life. In her past she has never been closeto her family, and is little closer now to the three "friends" with whom she journeys to investigate her father's death. As a child herconstant moves have re-inforced her position as an outsider, like "one who didn't know the local customs, like a person fromanother culture."12 In the novel she eventually realizes that she has become shut up within her head, and must re-establish linkswith her physical body and her instinctual nature before she is able to enter into a true relationship with physical reality, thosearound her, and herself. 2ff7e9595c
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