The Longest Journey is the least popular of Forster's books, and often gets left off lists and so on. I can understand why—it's a weird, miserable book—but I love it a lot.
I agree with all your thoughts on Lucy—and I especially like the idea that Ginevra is one of the few people who really sees Lucy and that that's what makes their relationship, antagonistic as it is, so significant.
Years ago I wrote a Ginevra/Lucy fic for Yuletide
Ooh! *opens in tab to read*
Even the impersonal forces of nature are against her, drowning her love.
Yeah, I think that's how I probably should interpret it. It is such a powerful bit of narratorial bitterness, isn't it—I was reading along, ambivalent about the ending up to here but curious about how things were going to wrap up, then I got to those last paragraphs and just went, OK, wow, whatever I expected it wasn't that.
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Date: Aug. 24th, 2022 04:06 pm (UTC)I agree with all your thoughts on Lucy—and I especially like the idea that Ginevra is one of the few people who really sees Lucy and that that's what makes their relationship, antagonistic as it is, so significant.
Years ago I wrote a Ginevra/Lucy fic for Yuletide
Ooh! *opens in tab to read*
Even the impersonal forces of nature are against her, drowning her love.
Yeah, I think that's how I probably should interpret it. It is such a powerful bit of narratorial bitterness, isn't it—I was reading along, ambivalent about the ending up to here but curious about how things were going to wrap up, then I got to those last paragraphs and just went, OK, wow, whatever I expected it wasn't that.