Books, Writing & Young Readers
‘You sound critical.’
‘ I am only pointing to the obvious. If he hadn’t wasted so much of his life correcting students’ grammar and sitting through boring meetings, he might have written more, perhaps even bwritten better. But he was not a child. He knew what he was doing. He made his choice.’
‘On the other hand, being a teacher allowed him contact with a younger generation. Which he might not have had, had he withdrawn from the world and devoted himself solely to writing.’
Interesting point in that last sentence. Wonder how current writers maintain contact with the younger generations. Or is that another reason why the younger generations have given up on reading books for leisure, with the exception of fantasy genre – the writers are so out of touch with them they can’t relate to any bit of the books.
Another good bit about yesterday’s ride around LDN…
Another good bit about yesterday’s ride around LDN: I’m now under 400miles behind Steve in this year’s tally. Just to think about a month ago I was almost 600 miles off.
P.S.: Some credit due to those dying trees in his garden too, that kept him off the road for 2 weeks ;)
Why write?
A conversation about writing books, from the book ‘Summertime’ by J.M. Coetzee:
‘Do you really believe that? That books give meaning to our lives?’
‘Yes. A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us. What else should it be?’
‘A gesture of refusal in the face of time. A bid for immortality.’
There’s more: though it drags a little, I like the way it ends (after the break)
3rd flash slide on Comedy Central
They’re really harping about bringing Friends over from Channel 4. Shows the power of that franchise even this many years after it actually got over!
End of yet another poor summer.. another little flash slide on Comedy Central
A little flash slide on Comedy Central
Created & fine tuned batch image processing script…
Created & fine-tuned batch image processing script in Phatch. There goes one of the last reasons to use Windows.
8 minutes to scale, watermark, rename 300+ photos on my creaking old laptop, while 30+ tabs were open in browsers. I could get addicted to this.
I hope that in the afterlife we will…
I hope that in the afterlife we will get a chance, each of us, to say our sorries to people we have wronged. I’ll have plenty of sorries to say, believe you me.
J M Coetzee, in Summertime
What I was determined to avoid was emotional…
What I was determined to avoid was emotional entanglement. A passing fling was one thing, an affair of the heart quite another.
J M Coetzee, in Summertime