#22- A service of Love
It’s O.Henry Friday! I know, I know, you can hardly contain
yourselves. I’m starting to really enjoy
reading O.Henry once a week. It’s like a way station along the road to stop,
re-fill, and take stock of the journey.
These stories are definitely written in an outdated voice and sometimes
seem a little too quaint. However, given the context of all the other authors I
will read during this project, these will act as a perfect control element.
These stories are also all pretty short, so its kind of
useless to completely summarize them.
Just go ahead and read them yourself, or if you trust me, al least the
ones with higher ratings.
This is the O.Henry-est of O.Henry stories. It’s about art
and all the work, sacrifice, hardship, perseverance, arrogance, monotony,
selfishness, hope, and cynicism that comes along with it. It’s Art as a metaphor for Love. Throughout all of life’s travails, art and
love will find a way to live on.
Notable Passage: “When one loves ones art, no service seems
to hard.”
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