I saw Eternity the other night

[fictional]

I saw Eternity the other night,
Like a great ring of pure and endless light,
All calm, as it was bright;
And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years,
Driv'n by the spheres
Like a vast shadow mov'd; in which the world
And all her train were hurl'd.
-Henry Vaughan

I learned that poem, and an innumerable host of things that I cannot catalogue from the novels of Madeleine L'Engle.

Who died yesterday.

I've known she was sick for a very long time, and it's good that she's at peace now, but I am...I don't know. Utterly, utterly sad.

I loved those novels, and I hope somewhere in Lucien's library I will one day find a copy of The Other Side of the Sun.

Comments

[framefolly.livejournal.com]

I'm a longtime L'Engle fan, too. Some of her novels are my comfort reading -- the words so familiar that the pages feel like home.

Thank you for posting about it -- otherwise I probably wouldn't have heard...

[rm.livejournal.com]

I was going to call you. Hard week.

[magnetgirl.livejournal.com]

Oh my darling. This is so made of awful.

You are my living, breathing Madeleine L'Engle book, you know.