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Well, I guess a fan thanking an author isn't so unusual, on the author's own forum. This kind of power is a little unsettling. Authors are my rock stars. They exist a little less than three dimensional. But I'm handling the humbling because my debt is an ocean. I'm not thanking OSC for Enderverse. I should be. I'm not thanking him for Alvin, as I should be, or Homecoming, or Lost Boys, or Treasure Box, or Homebody as I should be. I should be thanking the rest of his bibliography, which is a to do list. I'm not, although I am appreciative of the man who offered me stars when I was a boy.
Today I give my gratitude to something else. Something more significant to me. Something that never fails, like a Zeus' chosen lightning bolt. There's nothing like it, that sweet something, my something and your something but the thing that still grips me. Something that I grew up on, and something that has persisted throughout my fledging life, something irrevocably precious to me, and yet still hearty and wholesome enough to turn to in my time of need; the cataclysm of human emotion, the very funnelling of my soul's disparate parts into one dull thud of cataphonic beatitude as the names scroll, and in one bold row 'Sword Fighting Insults', and in the next, 'Orson Scott Card'.
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I agree, very nicely put! No matter how rough life has been for me or scared I have felt at times, a good book has always grounded me and gave me some security and comfort; OSC's stories and books have been most of those comfort books for me and for that I give thanks.
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