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| Carson McCullers
All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.An army post in peacetime is a dull place.
I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen. I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
In the town there were two mutes, and they were always together.
It happened that green and crazy summer when Frankie was twelve years old.
It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect. There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world. |
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