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08/30/01 11:58 AM: Summer Reading
I tried to post last night (several times), but my ISP wasn’t cooperating. Anyway… I was bored the other day around 1:00 PM. Taking into consideration the very small likelihood of any of my friends being awake at that hour, I decided to go to the library. I had been given a summer reading list for AP English at the end of the school year. I accidentally–really!—threw it away before school even ended. Of the books that I hadn’t already read, the only one I can remember presently is Jane Eyre. So I took a trip to the library to see about getting hold of a copy. Naturally, there were none. Nor did they have the next two books I was looking for. But I did find The Great Gatsby and The Catcher In the Rye. I’ve read The Great Gatsby so far. Not a bad piece of work. There were three copies of it at the library. I checked out the one with notes scribbled throughout and passages underlined. I thought it would be interesting to see what someone else had thought of it. I found some helpful hints that clarified the plot in some places. Anyway, it seems to be saying that it’s foolish to live in the past or try to recreate a memory. No matter how much we might wish to relive a certain moment, it can never be, and any attempt to reconstruct the moment will only result in disappointment.
