Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Levin

What was it this time that carried me away?


Levin, from Anna Karenina, is delightful, because he is earnest and blind. He wants what he already has, he protests against what cannot be divided from himself, he walks about in a cloud of strict delusion only to succumb to an embrace with what he has so vehemently pretended did not matter.

He loves. He questions love, denies it, loves again.