Its delimited boundaries put me in mind of one of my favourite Wordsworth sonnets, Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room, which extols the paradoxically liberating power of restriction. Just as nuns are freed by the convent's constraints and poets are liberated by the sonnet's 14-line scheme, so was my mind freed - to muse, to reflect, to dream - by what at first had felt like imprisonment.
I fell in love with the essay. It was like being confined in a broken elevator for 12 hours with someone from the office whom you've always vaguely respected but never spoken to at length; discovering that you have everything in common; and realising by the time the doors slide open that you're going to spend the rest of your lives together. Once I was vertical, with a healthy baby in my arms and the freedom to choose any literary genre I pleased, I found that all I wanted to do was write more essays.
What had happened in that broken elevator - or, to return to a more conventionally romantic location, on that cosy mattress? I've already mentioned the essay's combination of limited size and unlimited perspective - the microcosm/macrocosm duality that inspired William Hazlitt's essay On Great and Little Things as well as the title of my current essay collection, At Large and At Small. I was also captivated by the inherently experimental nature of the genre. It's no accident that Montaigne, holed up in his tower in Aquitaine (a sort of 16th-century double mattress), chose to name his new literary form the essaie - in other words, an attempt or trial rather than a finished product. When he was writing about idleness, constancy, fear, friendship, pedantry, moderation, cruelty, presumption, anger, vanity, and sleep - among dozens of other subjects - he never gave the impression that he was being definitive. He was noodling around, hazarding guesses, having fun.
I'm particularly besotted with the 'familiar essay,' a genre that had its heyday in the time of Hazlitt and Charles Lamb
Source link: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/11/make_a_little_room_for_the_ess.html
sealy is donating 200 twin, full, queen and king sized mattress sets, and lindera retailer Linder's Furniture to donate 200 mattress sets to victims of the recent San Diego wildfires.
'Sealy is committed to helping the communities in which it serves because we care about our neighbors in need,' said Dave McIlquham, Sealy's chairman and CEO. 'Our thoughts are with everyone affected by the California wildfires, and we are grateful for the opportunity to partner with Linder's Furniture to provide mattresses for victims.'
Sealy is donating 200 twin, full, queen and king sized mattress sets, and Linder's will deliver them to recipients for free
Source link: http://www.hfbusiness.com/story/story.bsp?sid=82546&var=story
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