Characterization | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Mon, 24 May 2010 20:37:00 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://anitamathias.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-Anita_lgr_hi_res_square_512-32x32.jpg Characterization | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com 32 32 Characterization which somehow gets the essence of a person. https://anitamathias.com/2010/05/24/characterization-which-somehow-gets-the-essence-of-a-person-2/ Mon, 24 May 2010 20:37:00 +0000 https://anitamathias.com/2010/05/24/characterization-which-somehow-gets-the-essence-of-a-person-2/ Look at this passage from A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving  “There was undeniably a feline quality to my mother–never in the sly or stealthy sense of the word, but in the word’s other catlike qualities:a clean, sleek, self-possessed, strokable quality.  In quite a different way from Owen Meany, my mother looked touchable; […]

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