tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post492259836628947162..comments2024-03-24T02:21:53.258-07:00Comments on william morris unbound: Convalescence, Rainbows, UtopiaTony Pinkneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10044449613701140938noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-40284852846613292652008-05-22T04:32:00.000-07:002008-05-22T04:32:00.000-07:00Leaving aside the extremely generous comments on m...Leaving aside the extremely generous comments on my paper, I wanted to agree with the suggestive comment that a utopian impulse is bound up with the moment of convalescence. There is a glimmering sense of this in 'Useful Work versus Useless Toil', where Morris writes about the idea of a holiday, in which we 'note the course of our lives amidst all the little links of events which connect them with the lives of others' - a description that is surely related to the renewal of vision portrayed in the trip up the Thames in News from Nowhere.Matthew Beaumonthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01860047334906419385noreply@blogger.com