Showing posts with label John Galsworthy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Galsworthy. Show all posts

Friday, August 12, 2011

"Beginnings are always messy."

John Galsworthy said that. It's as true of the first blog post as it is of most endeavors: starting a novel, overhauling a career, sorting out a new friendship. Galsworthy should know -- in his grand opus, which snagged him a Nobel prize, he managed to juggle dozens of main characters over many generations; The Forsyte Saga seemed to go on forever, like life -- not the individual life, but the sprawling mucky whole of it.

(that's Galsworthy, above, contemplating another messy beginning)