A while back I read the Talented Mr. Ripley, the book by Patricia Highsmith, and I forgot about it till I saw the movie recently and it suddenly occurred to me that I knew Dickie Greenleaf. It was such a strange thing, but a college classmate of mine resembled Dickie in quite a few ways. All these memories about the guy and his personality and behavioral tendencies came back to me. My classmate was handsome guy who had a very wealthy father. He was charming and fun to be around, a lover of jazz music and expensive things, but he was also irresponsible and impulsive. Eventually he quit college and went to Europe, to get away from his parents. Anyhow, I wonder if anybody else has had similar experiences.
by Fin_al
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The first time I read the metamorphosis and then Blumfield and other works by Franz Kafka I could feel I resonated with they way the author portrayed a rich inner world, the peace and solitude of the self in comparison with the hectic exterior and the chaos of people. Most recently I read Demian by Hermann Hesse, and I could feel the duality and self exploration of the moral bias deeply resonating with my younger self, and how even nowadays everything seems to be in shades of gray and at the end of the day the only one who’s there for me and gets me to the fullest even when clueless is me.