tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post8168480572524792321..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: NovelUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-53585300512212832152009-07-01T18:27:41.937-07:002009-07-01T18:27:41.937-07:00Mariana,
Well, I will admit to often pausing for ...Mariana,<br /><br />Well, I will admit to often pausing for rest upon a bench. But not sleeping (so far). Perhaps this simply means I have not yet established my personal benchmark?TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-37044890160519779512009-07-01T18:15:53.942-07:002009-07-01T18:15:53.942-07:00I like the quote that you wrote about the poet cal...I like the quote that you wrote about the poet called Wordsworth, it is so true most of the times.<br /><br />I think that great artists shouldn't live to be very old, because they lose their rebel spirit, their magic powers, but mostly they loose momentum when they are gone. They end up being remembered as in the crazy decadents oddballs they became<br />before they where gone.<br /><br />This witter reminded me of the following thought:“ A poet confessing to mental illness is like a weight-lifter admitting to muscles ” - Roddy Lumsden<br /><br />Which is think it is almost always true. There for if your art is this one you 'd better to take precautions at least for not sleeping in a bench.<br /><br />Thanks for the post<br />MarianaMariana Sofferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13351209522681966230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-86284968299991939682009-07-01T15:46:45.781-07:002009-07-01T15:46:45.781-07:00Mariana,
Thanks for enjoying the fox. He is a ch...Mariana,<br /><br />Thanks for enjoying the fox. He is a character out of Goethe and a close cousin of Reynard the Fox, the trickster of the forests in much magical European folklore.<br /><br />Also: I suppose the idea that genius must end in lunacy would not go over well with most geniuses--how would we know? would they tell us, mired in their lunacy as they inevitably in the end are?<br /><br />The poet Wordsworth, who in his youth penned works of genius, must have had some prescient inkling on this subject when he wrote:<br /><br />We poets in our youth begin in gladness;<br />But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness.<br /><br />Of course "in the end" Wordsworth, who perhaps simply made the mistake of living too long, became not a lunatic (which might have been good for his poetry, if not for him) but a rather stodgy civil servant... and, dare one say it, an Old Bore.<br /><br />Caught on the horns of this dilemma, what is the poetic genius to do?TC/BTPnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-20100066818413004302009-07-01T14:36:05.476-07:002009-07-01T14:36:05.476-07:00Genious must end with lunacy. Great fox, I really ...Genious must end with lunacy. Great fox, I really liked it.<br />It is hard to choose the few words that describe something, and you made it acurately<br />Take care my friendMariana Sofferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13351209522681966230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-38055352980716985472009-07-01T04:14:30.585-07:002009-07-01T04:14:30.585-07:00Zeph,
The brilliant indecisiveness of SHORT STORY...Zeph,<br /><br />The brilliant indecisiveness of SHORT STORY is, in brief, overwhelming.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-59133928587167427112009-07-01T03:02:09.749-07:002009-07-01T03:02:09.749-07:00Wonderful account of your polysyllabic travels (an...Wonderful account of your polysyllabic travels (and travails), Tom!<br /><br />SHORT STORY<br /><br />He wondered<br />if perhaps<br />and then thought<br />noZephirinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02809525772159756122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-62136236842882550182009-07-01T00:57:15.799-07:002009-07-01T00:57:15.799-07:00oh
yeah
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can
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itoh<br />yeah<br />i<br />can<br />dig<br />ittimmyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03913219403302733490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-15908815078066424012009-06-30T19:41:58.394-07:002009-06-30T19:41:58.394-07:00Timmy,
I must bow to your superior brevity.
The ...Timmy,<br /><br />I must bow to your superior brevity.<br /><br />The unfortunate too-long-words habit which has doomed me as a novelist has plagued me since winning the Chicago Daily News school kids' spelling bee in 1949. It's all been a terrible downhill slide since then.<br /><br /><br />For many years I hid away in shame over my long words problem in a cottage in the small Welsh town of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndro<br />bwllllantysiliogogogoch.<br /><br /><br />One day I almost took a bus to Gorsafawddachaidraigodanheddogle<br />ddollonpenrhynareurdraethceredigion, but at the last minute thought better of it.<br /><br /> I migrated then to the town of Tetaumatawhakatangihangakoaua<br />otamateaurehaeaturipukapihimaunga<br />horonukupokaiwhenuaakitanarahu<br />in New Zealand.<br /><br />Years went by.<br /><br />Finally I settled here in Thailand, in the remote village of Krungthepmahanakornamornratanakos<br />inmahintarayutthayamahadilokphop<br />nopparatrajathaniburiromudomra<br />janiwesmahasatharnamornphimara<br />vatarnsathitsakkattiyavisanukam<br />prasit.<br /><br />Things have gone better here. I no longer speak at all. I have however come down with a worrying case of Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico<br />volcanokoniosis.TC/BTPnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-51306280010570000892009-06-30T06:32:53.946-07:002009-06-30T06:32:53.946-07:00nobody beats me at six words, dude. nobody.
alte...nobody beats me at six words, dude. nobody.<br /><br />alternate:<br /><br />gosh mr clark, i bet you could come up with shorter words real easytimmyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03913219403302733490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-71121548609405218402009-06-30T01:07:01.628-07:002009-06-30T01:07:01.628-07:00Timmy,
Your novella is redemptive, has a happy en...Timmy,<br /><br />Your novella is redemptive, has a happy ending (??) and employs shorter words than my novel. Grrrr... I am jealous.TC/BTPnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-53690239171361328912009-06-29T05:18:21.188-07:002009-06-29T05:18:21.188-07:00NOVELLA
darling
yes
sorry
ah
truly
ahNOVELLA<br /><br />darling<br />yes<br />sorry<br />ah<br />truly<br />ahtimmyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03913219403302733490noreply@blogger.com