Growing up I used to HATE it. Now it's the only thing I read for 'pleasure'.
I know it's gay but everything pertaining to the present just bums me out.
The preface of name of the rose comes to mind:
And so I now feel free to tell, for sheer narrative pleasure, the story of Adso of Melk, and I am comforted and consoled in finding it immeasurably remote in time (now that the waking of reason has dispelled all the monsters that its sleep had generated), gloriously lacking in any relevance for our day, atemporally alien to our hopes and our certainties.
jerkofalltrades 2 points 1 day ago
Growing up I used to HATE it. Now it's the only thing I read for 'pleasure'.
I know it's gay but everything pertaining to the present just bums me out.
The preface of name of the rose comes to mind: