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Is that it? Autobiography and masculine denial

Is that it? Autobiography and masculine denial I knew that nothing in my life had been worth anything until now. Yet I felt no sadness that this moment could not be prolonged to last a lifetime. It was enough; this clear moment of absolute certainty. All this was good and was rooted in no reasons but good reasons. No dark cloud could blot out this sun, as it always had at times of pleasure or triumph before. All of my life I felt I had been waiting, for what I was unsure. Things felt good or bad, but never complete. There was always something else-- something unspecific. Not today. Had all this waiting been for this? Was this it? 'I think this must be the greatest day of my life,' was all I could find to say. One journalist, writing in Life magazine, captured the unlikeliness of the whole affair with a vivid image. God had come down from heaven to find someone to undertake the task of alerting the world to the holocaust which was sweeping the continent of Africa. So Bob Geldof in the 'Prologue' (p. 11) to his autobiography, Is That It?, records his experience at mid-day on 13 July 1985 at http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Paragraph Edinburgh University Press

Is that it? Autobiography and masculine denial

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Edinburgh University Press
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© Oxford University Press 1991
ISSN
0264-8334
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1750-0176
DOI
10.3366/para.1991.0009
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Abstract

I knew that nothing in my life had been worth anything until now. Yet I felt no sadness that this moment could not be prolonged to last a lifetime. It was enough; this clear moment of absolute certainty. All this was good and was rooted in no reasons but good reasons. No dark cloud could blot out this sun, as it always had at times of pleasure or triumph before. All of my life I felt I had been waiting, for what I was unsure. Things felt good or bad, but never complete. There was always something else-- something unspecific. Not today. Had all this waiting been for this? Was this it? 'I think this must be the greatest day of my life,' was all I could find to say. One journalist, writing in Life magazine, captured the unlikeliness of the whole affair with a vivid image. God had come down from heaven to find someone to undertake the task of alerting the world to the holocaust which was sweeping the continent of Africa. So Bob Geldof in the 'Prologue' (p. 11) to his autobiography, Is That It?, records his experience at mid-day on 13 July 1985 at

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Published: Jul 1, 1991

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