"A House of Lions" is a thrilling read. Such broken, yet capable characters! Argh, they aren`t broken, really. They`re human, would be a better statement. Transparent humans always appear broken, that is our silly way. And it kind of annoys me to repeat that silly notion about them. They possess a form of beauty that is tinted with melancholia that i find close to perfect. I must honestly say that their school-environment seems so far from healthy as it is possible to get. The joys of the struggling british upper classes appear rather scary at times.
So, luckily i grew up in Bloom County not with Bloomsbury. Visiting their beings, behaviours and social environments now will probably come in handy though.
Granted, at times i feel sorrowful over not having existed in such an environment of intellectual stimulation and rational rigor. I did try to emulate it as best as i could as an independent entity, but that was far from easy. But i`m quite fond of the slightly more relaxed take on the world and its beings that most of my friends and family espouse. Though i can be quite irritated by it at times. The blindness to alternatives of a worse sort makes me annoyingly irreverent of their actual accomplishments as fellow human beings at times. Though that is hardly a burden i am alone in bearing.
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