Diary | Before The End..

The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. Let us not speak well of it either. Let us not speak of it at all.
/ Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett

I believe if there's any kind of God it wouldn't be in any of us, not you or me but just this little space in between. If there's any kind of magic in this world it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something. I know, it's almost impossible to succeed but who cares really? The answer must be in the attempt.

Isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?

I like to feel his eyes on me when I look away.

I had worked for this old man and once he told me that he had spent his whole life thinking about his career and his work. And he was fifty-two and it suddenly struck him that he had never really given anything of himself. His life was for no one and nothing. He was almost crying saying that. / more

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I've just finished Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray. Remember the first time I heard about was in high school; a friend of mind told me the story and she promised me to bring the movie. It never happened of course. Again it was the first year of university, in the course Literature 1, when (I can't remember why) this name mentioned, and I got the full-text story (in some html pages) to read. Of course they were deleted -without being read- many times ago.

"The picture of Dorian Gray" is a name, well-known enough to introduce itself. Wilde published it first in 1890 as his first and only novel, when it was reviewed as an offensive homosexual writing (of course it is) and he was forced to edit the original script, but actually it isn't a big deal. All the time, Wilde's works were of popular ones. His plays are famous and literary valuable even now. "Dorian Gray" is a mixture of all contemporary isms toward literature and art. At the surface it is a novel, with an interesting plot but there's much more about it.

I like Peter Harness's saying that: "Perhaps this is the secret to Dorian Gray's wonderful fascination: that the readers can never quite get to grips with the whole book. They must keep returning, like Dorian to his p attic, to a work that they cannot wholly understand, but which continues to exercise an inexplicable spell upon them."

While I was in the middle of the book, I saw much more in every single sentence that I can claim it's necessary for every one to read it once at least. It's a kind of revelation of hidden side of life in Iran, not hidden of course, at least for me. Or it only came in a right time. Whatever it was, I know it has been like some never-forget-me sentences carved at my memory.

You can read it online for free: About.com | Gutenberg.org

"I'm probably the happiest man in the world", he wrote it to himself and read it twice. Now he knew what is to enjoy life, to live it. He torn masks, and saw himself down in himself satisfied. With a help of a friend, he ate and drank again, he went out and the life began shining almost as it should!

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