And it comes basically straight out of the mouth of William James-- 1890, William James, Harvard psychologist, brother of Henry James . He's written a big book, a textbook called "Principles of Psychology," which is a classic almost as
And once the truth is out in the open air, some kind of resolution can be found. But that was what Henry James , the fine Gothic romance, he said is about-- and it was so perfect. He said it's about-- the ghosts represent the past, and is the struggle to move into the future.
Utopia versus dystopia. Activism vs learned helplessness. The influence of Henry James versus the influence of H.G. Wells. Genre fiction versus stuff supposedly so good that it's not SF.
Stories that are not entirely fantastic, but are not constrained by every day reality. In the words of Henry James , Stevenson's friend, romance is experienced liberally, experienced liberally. So not unreal but free.
And she says getting your itses mixed up is the greatest solecism in the world punctuation. "No matter that you have a PhD and read all of Henry James twice, if you persist in writing 'good food at it's best,' you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot, and buried in an unmarked grave."
I mean, I know it's got a commercial definition, and that people ghostwrite things .. I mean, that's Henry James , is it not?
Everybody is familiar with, time flies when you're having fun. And to go back to a quote from Henry James , which was from his magnum opus, "Principles of Psychology," written over 100 years ago. He says, "In general, a time filled with varied and interesting experiences seems short in passing, but long as we look back.
Lucille, the longer she's in the house, the bigger she gets-- even with her clothing-- That happened to me too. But people tend to disqualify her as a pale imitator of Henry James .
The name is working its way into respectability. I read The Turn of the Screw by Henry James right before I plunged into it.
with the native Polynesians, especially the Samoans. And here he is writing to his best friend back home, Henry James , trying to explain why he's decided to spend his life in Samoa. "I was never fond of towns, houses, society, or -it seems- civilization." They're all using this word.
My fav -- There's all these discussions going on -- what are you gonna call this? For those of you who are literary minded, if you remember Henry James was a 19th century novelist. He wrote a lot about these closeted lesbians in Boston.
And I think that's why the story is so brilliant, in that it sort of sets the stage for all the stories But if there's a gay ghetto, I mean, Baldwin is there, Thomas Mann is there, Henry James is there, Virginia Woolf is there, Jeanette Winterson is there.
And I think that's why the story is so brilliant, in that it sort of sets the stage for all the stories You don't wake up and go have sex with a boy and then say, ah, I'm going to write like Henry James .
Lucille, the longer she's in the house, the bigger she gets-- even with her clothing-- That happened to me too. And to this day, I mean, I called her Edith for Edith Wharton, who was in my opinion as good with ghostly tales as Henry James .