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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
-- John Galsworthy

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JohnGalsworthy #TheFuture

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #NewMexico

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
-- John Galsworthy

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JohnGalsworthy #TheFuture

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #NewMexico

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
-- John Galsworthy

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JohnGalsworthy #TheFuture

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #NewMexico

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
-- John Galsworthy

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JohnGalsworthy #TheFuture

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #NewMexico

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
-- John Galsworthy

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JohnGalsworthy #TheFuture

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #NewMexico

🧵 2/2

This change of mind has come about for a couple of reasons.

In the first place, reading Gabriele Tergit's "Effingers" reminded me of how satisfying a read a well observed family saga can be. I'm pretty sure that Tergit had read both "Buddenbrooks" and the Galsworthy. Previously I read the Thomas Mann, thinking of it as a key work in European literature, but had been inclined to regard the Galsworthy as something that I could afford to pass over -- I admit that a little bit of Virginia Woolf snobbery about "middlebrow" fiction was probably at work here too. But I might just enjoy the Galsworthy!

Then my interest was prompted by this BBC feature on a new television adaptation. It reminded me that a family saga does not have to consist of Mann like novels of ideas to be probing and revelatory.

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260320-the-story-that-skewered-the-british-class-system

#JohnGalsworthy #ForsyteSaga #Literature #Novels #BritishLiterature #FamilySaga #Books #TwentiethCenturyLiterature

John Galsworthy self published his first book, a collection of short stories, called From the Four Winds, under the name John Sinjon in 1897. This was followed by a novel, Jocelyn, the following year. Galsworthy didn’t rate either of these works very highly and saw them as learning the craft. In fact, he dismissed From the Four Winds as "that dreadful little book".

10 facts about Forsyte Saga creator John Galsworthy:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2024/08/14-august-john-galsworthy.html

#BirthAnniversary #JohnGalsworthy #Writers

I'll give this a go too.... #bookstodon
Seven favourite authors...
#MonicaDickens
#JohnLeCarre
#ENesbit
#LenDeighton
#JohnGalsworthy
#AJDevlin
#ColinDexter

I'll give this a go too.... #bookstodon
Seven favourite authors...
#MonicaDickens
#JohnLeCarre
#ENesbit
#LenDeighton
#JohnGalsworthy
#AJDevlin
#ColinDexter

I'll give this a go too.... #bookstodon
Seven favourite authors...
#MonicaDickens
#JohnLeCarre
#ENesbit
#LenDeighton
#JohnGalsworthy
#AJDevlin
#ColinDexter

I'll give this a go too.... #bookstodon
Seven favourite authors...
#MonicaDickens
#JohnLeCarre
#ENesbit
#LenDeighton
#JohnGalsworthy
#AJDevlin
#ColinDexter