Wonder or Wander

After almost three hours of walk to downtown of New Port, Vermont on July 7th, Mary Louise and I went to a bookstore and I bought this book. Woolf insists that women should have a consistent income and their privacy to be a good writer. She mentions that her life has changed ever since she became an heir and historically few genius came from a low class. However, she doesn't mention how one who is not lucky enough to be an heir can be a great writer. Instead, I interpert her point as women's econimical independence. Women writers should write a lot, whatever it is, to have an income out of it. According to Woolf, Jane Austin is a great genuis because she created her own style, untarnished from male writers' influence, without impediments, much as seen in Shakespear's, while Charlotte Bronte, another genius writer, who wrote Jane Ayre, shows impediments--distortion and anger as I understand--from the reality the author faced, so she cannot be comparable with Austin. Wool...

Written by Uday Prakash in Hindi / translated by Jason Grunebaum This book, with a cover image which reminds me of van Gogh, came to my hand after the bilingual reading presented by the author and the translator at the University of Chicago yesterday. The author defines this novel as a love story. He is quite modest. Rahul, in the middle of storms of corruptions and the casteism, falls in love with a girl with a golden yellow parasol and changes his major to Hindi literature to get closer to her. The moment when he feels the love so intensely is described like this: the golden yellow parasol turns into a butterfly and a butterfly sitting on the tip of the parasol the parasol itself. Then, 'now the butterfly, casting a spell over the whole world, had brought Rahul's sense of his own existence under its wing.'--How beautiful graphically! While reading this novel, my mind wandered around three countries: India, the U.S. and Korea. In the spell of globalization and the casteis...