{"id":3117,"date":"2005-06-11T08:54:57","date_gmt":"2005-06-11T12:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3117"},"modified":"2022-03-21T10:07:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T14:07:19","slug":"only-connect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3117","title":{"rendered":"Only Connect"},"content":{"rendered":"

An absolutely terrific essay by Roger Ebert<\/a> on “two conversations” in the film Howards End<\/i>. I loved that movie … which was quite extraordinary, considering my passionate feelings about that book. Not only did they “get” all the characters, and breathe life into Forster’s creations – I recognized the characters in the movie as the same ones I had met in the book (very rare, right??) … but they also “got” the deeper themes of that book. To me, that book is as deep as the ocean. You can’t say what it’s “about” – or if you come up with an answer too easily, it is my opinion that you have a too-facile or willfully-shallow read on what Forster was getting at. I am not saying that book is opaque – far from it. It’s just that it describes an entire world. There are surges beneath the surface narrative, deep society-wide swells of movement … I can never get to the bottom of it, I can never say: “Okay. Now I understand that book.” It constantly challenges me, and makes me think …<\/p>\n

The phrase “Only connect” reverberates for me – in different ways, at different times. I know that passage from the book by heart. “Live in fragments no longer.”<\/p>\n

Ebert’s essay is phenomenal – I enjoyed reading it tremendously, and it makes me want to see the movie again, to look for those “two conversations” in particular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An absolutely terrific essay by Roger Ebert on “two conversations” in the film Howards End. I loved that movie … which was quite extraordinary, considering my passionate feelings about that book. Not only did they “get” all the characters, and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[992],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174587,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117\/revisions\/174587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}