Insomnia

Print of Anne Lindberg

"Insomnia is not bad in itself. You can lie awake at night and think; the quality of insomnia depends entirely on what you decide to think of. Can you decide to think? - Yes, you can. At night I lay awake at the darkness, listening to the silence, prefiguring the future, picking out of the past the scraps I had overlooked, so that the weight of destiny no longer bore on the current problems of my life, whatever they were at the time (for who lives without problems of everyday? Why waste the nights on them?)." Muriel Spark

Faithless: Insomnia

Acupressure points:

Muriel Spark

In this sophisticated book nothing is accidental, everything appears as part of a system, in a pair, a contrast, a symmetry. Any details provide the metaphor of the entire book itself, the same way as the junior girls carry their adult fate. The characters are archetypes and individuals simultaneously. The consistent presence of number 7 increases the presence of a fate: 7 students, 7 teachers, and through 7 years we observe their road: their blossoming youth in the full prime of Miss Brodie between 1931-1938.

And what a clear, exact, economical language!

A brilliant book, an extraordinary writer!