In Arcadia
From Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri: a voyage into the enduring myth of Arcadia and the mysterious painting it inspired. A lyrical novel about art and enlightenment that takes the reader from Waterloo Station in London to Paris and a four hundred year old enigma, the painting by Nicolas Poussin known as 'Et in Arcadia Ego'. 'We never write the book we think we are writing. We never read the book we think we are reading' BEN OKRI.
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This is not a review; it is a note to self. (Which is basically what 93% of my reviews are.)
How delightful to meet my friends (aka the characters) as they were nearly two decades before Ben Okri's 2020 “The Age of Magic.”
The low ratings of his book inspire me. It is a reminder that there aren't a lot of people who operate from this wavelength. This is not a judgment; it is something that I have come to understand and it allows me a permission of sorts to share and not be understood—to be judged, yet not be held captive by the judgements. It has been painful trying to blend and bend myself to fit into (a rather sick) society because doing so was essentially rejecting my essence. Thankfully, I've slowly been putting an end to that self-abuse.
There is a profound gratitude for Ben Okri that has taken residence up in my heart.
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