![]() I imagine I found it more serious when I was living in it. I don't remember having that impression the first time. Now I've read it again, and I find that, seen backwards through the telescope of years, it's uproariously funny. I suppose I had to write a painfully trivial paper about it. I read it first in 1962, when I was living in painful intimacy with my "peers" in a painfully cloistered House at a painfully famous university. ![]() It's a "college" novel, like many others depicting the lives of its characters fatally determined by the inherently contingent friendships one forms in the nursery of one's college circle. ![]() Forster's The Longest Journey is painfully bad: painfully awkward, painfully closeted, painfully dated, painfully class-conscious, painfully defiant of the norms of story-telling, painfully sententious at times and preachy. ![]()
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