Harper Lee A Symbol That Ultimately We Have No Control

Harper Lee’s sequel to To Kill A Mockingbird is controversial – is she mentally capable of approving its publication?

I read To Kill A Mockingbird for the first time in 1984 and have read it a dozen times since. But I won’t read the pending sequel: if Harper Lee intended for it to be published she would have done so years ago, and every writer knows a work isn’t finished until the writer’s final edit/blessing. Like everything in the US, this smells to me like greed 😦

Lee’s situation is evidence that we can’t take anything to seriously in life – ultimately, time and death will remove every ounce of our control.