Gabrielle’s Reviews > Of Human Bondage > Status Update

Philip is an idiot. But that’s kind of the point.

“It seemed to Philip, brooding over these matters, that in the true painters, writers, musicians there was a power which drove them to such complete absorption in their work as to make it inevitable for them to subordinate life to art….and life slipped through their fingers unlived.” Makes me think of my dad sadly

I wasn’t in the mood for Bildungsroman but here we are! So far it feels very modern. Philip’s experience in life feels like something you yourself could have experienced in your 20’s.