tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8324659956195254426.post6229501876372747865..comments2023-12-29T22:39:10.040+00:00Comments on Damian Flanagan's Blog: Lord Jim and a TreeDamian Flanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09673207892262934298noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8324659956195254426.post-78534344161559419172007-09-26T06:35:00.000+01:002007-09-26T06:35:00.000+01:00> It's one of Conrad's great insights that persona...> It's one of Conrad's great insights that personality is revealed through action, that it is how we act at moments of sudden crisis that reveal what type of person we are. <BR/><BR/>It is indeed a great insight.<BR/><BR/>> We all I think potter about thinking that if we were faced with a crisis then we would act in the right way.<BR/><BR/>I guess that's what makes Endo Shusaku interesting - he believes he wouldn't be courageous. In his short story Unzen (The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories), he identfies with the coward. (Am refusing to put quotation marks around this word, think they're over-used.) Has compassion for him too.Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10620834437412814396noreply@blogger.com