Some literature injects romance straight into life, and other literature is more like a window. My friend's daughter read Harriet the Spy with her babysitter, and then they both went out spying in the neighborhood. That's a perfect romantic response; you read something, and straightaway change your life -- and Harriet is the perfect romance of curiosity, as My Family and Other Animals is the perfect romance of natural history and Daisy Summerfield's Style is the perfect design romance. In each case, one is drawn to change one's life immediately after finishing the book. The most perfect romance I know is Hamilton's The Planet of Junior Brown, a romance of responsibility.
You know a romance by the things it does to you, unmistakeably.
We need to know more about romances.
Posted by shea0017 at May 25, 2005 7:24 PM