вдохновение (vdokhnovenie)

Well-deserved Woolf riposte via The Waves

'You have been reading Byron. You have been marking the passages that seem to approve of your own character. I find marks against all those sentences which seem to express a sardonic yet passionate nature; a moth-like impetuosity dashing itself against hard glass. You thought, as you drew your pencil there, "I too throw off my cloak like that. I too snap my fingers in the face of destiny." Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There is a brown pool on the table--it is running among your books and papers. Now you mop it up, clumsily, with your pocket-handkerchief. You then stuff your handkerchief back into your pocket--that is not Byron; that is you; that is so essentially you that if I think of you in twenty years' time, when we are both famous, gouty and intolerable, it will be by that scene'

Touche Ms. Woolf. Touche.

Word Cloud Laura

Hem...again

...I am glad always to make it conventional as to punctuation.  About the words- I have made a notation at the side about the bed pan.  Originally I had about 2,000 words of that aspect of hospital life.  It really dominates it.  I cut it all with the exception of the one reference to the bed pan.

It's the same with other words.

You say they have not been in print before- one may not have- but the others are all in Shakespeare.  

If a word can be printed and is needed in the text it is a weakening to omit it.  If you say you think a word must go,  I consider you leaving that a blank.

You know what General Cambronne said at the battle of Waterloo instead of "the old guard dies but never surrenders."  He said Merde when they called on him to surrender.

Yours always

  Ernest

excuse typographical mistakes

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A lil light Saturday afternoon reading from the lady

C.S. Lewis: The Abolition of Man
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/lewis/abolition3.htm

Anais Nin: Ladders to Fire
http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=852229

Hem: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
http://www.mrbauld.com/hemclean.html

W. Somerset Maugham: The Verger
http://tomseb1.wordpress.com/2010/09/07/the-verger-w-somerset-maugham/

February 5th

I have implemented a writing regimen, starting today the 5th of February.  At least one page every day.  More than doable.  I'm done with bullshit, everyone's, but mine especially - as that is simply unacceptable.

First Chapter.  First page.  First word:

Done. 

Hem

Taking a double barrel shotgun to a face that beautiful, you should be ashamed of yourself Mr. Hemingway

But I forgive you for two reasons:


1.) The Sun Also Rises - which made me realize that I, too, could become a writer
2.) This little number: http://www.gummyprint.com/blog/archives/hills-like-white-elephants-complete-story/comment-page-1/  -  which made me realize that I would :)






http://cgi.ebay.com/Ernest-Hemingway-First-Edition-Set-One-Signed-Copy-/260722543030  ...dare to dream