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What is the name of that wiry, nutty creature that fawned over Jabba the Hutt?
Having read my blogs of late, Jane has decided to keep me honest; she has the brainpower and dry wit to see through cant. And she knows when I am being preposterous, pompous as well as grandiose. That’s what I need, a built-in critic! So as she reads these blogs she cuts through the layers of fat, rearranges my thought processes and tells me I have delivered a baby by breech — shove it back in and deliver it properly, oh master of words and wit. You will occasionally, I’ve been told, see her comment upon these blogs — “The…
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I Am Feeling Enthused
Correspondence with reviewers and bloggers of late has been encouraging; new ideas are coming to mind as I sit here in Ahab’s cabin, trying to encompass the world in my driven search for the great white whale; do you recall John Huston’s film in the fifties where you hear Ahab’s pegleg thumping on the deck as the crew below (Richard Basehart,”Ishmael,” for one) listens? I have no idea why this association to Moby Dick. . .Oh, yes, I see. So here I am doing Larry David, unwilling to accept the joyful optimism which is the harbinger of daily life. Oh, please, edit that…
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Tintinnabulation
I just received word from Reader Views that I am a semi-finalist for their literary contest, and yesterday I failed to reach that level for another contest. All interesting and exciting. A very good review appeared on Reader Views yesterday and then I was notified that it went big time and was on USA Today (online) and Reuters (online). I have no idea if this will affect sales but that would be very nice. A reviewer of Down to a Sunless Sea asked to read my opus, The i Tetralogy, and in essence she is telling me that I am…
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The Parable of the Sea Wall, and Other Things
For a while I read Alice Miller, and was moved to underline this quotation in one of her books: “The way we were treated as small children is the way we treat ourselves the rest of our life. And we often impose our most agonizing suffering upon ourselves.” Although not consciously Down to a Sunless Sea works this premise up into stories such as “Billy’s Mirrored Wall,” “Mortise and Tenon,” to some degree, and “Herbie.” And the above essay, which is factual ,reveals my own relationship to my mother (See “The Parable of the Sea Wall,” La Fenetre, 2007, online).…