John Updike Quotes

Heade's Calm Is Unsteady, Storm-stirred; We Respond In Our Era To Its Hint Of The Nervous And The Fearful. His Weather Is Interior Weather, In A Sense, And He Perhaps Was, If Far From The First To Portray A Modern Mood, An Ambivalent Mood Tinged With Dread And Yet Imbued With A Certain Lightness.The Mood Could Even Be Said To Be Religious: Not An Aggressive Preachment Of God's Grandeur But A Kind Of Zen Poise And Acceptance, Represented By The Small Sedentary Or Plodding Foreground Figures That Appear Uncannily At Peace As The Clouds Blacken And The Lightning Flashes.

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