[HPforGrownups] The Phoenix
Stephanie Becvar
StephBecvar at hotmail.com
Thu Jan 11 00:44:38 UTC 2001
No: HPFGUIDX 8941
I just finished reading "A Prayer for Owen Meaney", by John Irving. At some
point near the end of the book, i was able to read through my tears, a
comment that Owen makes about the Phoenix in his diary. I thought I would
share it with the rest of you...
"There was quite a good drawing of a Phoenix, that mythical bird that was
supposed to burn itself on a funeral pyre and then rise up from its own
ashes. Under the drawing, Owen had written, 'OFTEN A SYMBOL OF REBORN
IDEALISM, OR HOPE - OR AN EMBLEM OF IMMORTALITY' "
Kind of made me think about HP, which was not easy to do considering how
moving this book is. I am going to veer off topic and tell you, that if you
have not read it, it is a wonderful story, one that can cause so many
emotions in you. It was the first book I have been able to focus on since
reading HP in November...without thinking of Harry till the very end....only
after i had finished the book and was trying to calm myself down did i
remember to go bnack and find it.
Ignoring all that, what did you think of Owen's views on the Phoenix??
Stephanie
Hoping against hope that someone hasn't already said this long ago....
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