We So Seldom Look On Love (2007)
“which appeared in Descant’s Spring 2006 issue dedicated to the author, entitled Entering the Other: The World of Barbara Gowdy. We talked for a couple of hours on Barbara Gowdy’s back porch in mid-September, 2004. It was warm and sunny. Apparently, the hardwoods of Wellesley Park were full of noisy cicadas; I say “apparently” because somehow I failed to notice them at the time. But as I transcribed the interview a few months later, there they were on the tape, so loud in a few places that I had... to strain to make out our words.
—Steven Heighton Steven Heighton: The Latin dramatist Terence wrote that because he was human, nothing human was alien to him. I realize this credo has become something of a chestnut, but after reading your books in sequence, I kept wanting to quote it.
Barbara Gowdy: Well … a whole lot of what is human is alien to me, but it’s hardly my job to decide whether or not it should exist or be explored. I can be as repelled as anyone else. I struggle against my reactions, though, when I feel that they’re getting in the way of my finding out something interesting or important.MoreLess
—Steven Heighton Steven Heighton: The Latin dramatist Terence wrote that because he was human, nothing human was alien to him. I realize this credo has become something of a chestnut, but after reading your books in sequence, I kept wanting to quote it.
Barbara Gowdy: Well … a whole lot of what is human is alien to me, but it’s hardly my job to decide whether or not it should exist or be explored. I can be as repelled as anyone else. I struggle against my reactions, though, when I feel that they’re getting in the way of my finding out something interesting or important.MoreLess
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