Emma's world
Jane Austen has a truly relentless gaze. Think Cobra in a sitting room? Just been rereading the first few chapters and am dazzled by the easefulness of her scrutiny, moving… Read More »Emma's world
September 2007
Emma by Jane Austen
‘Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich…’ Who could resist this heroine? !!!
Atonement.
Phew…Good job I don’t suffer from high blood presssure as the novel is winding me up SO MUCH! Coitus interruptus stylistically and thematically. Everywhere I look what do I see… Read More »Atonement.
The Short Story. Seminar Schedule. 1) Introductory Session: Hemingway’s Cat in the Rain; Lydia Davis. 2) Edgar Allan Poe: The Fall of the House of Usher; The… Read More »
Prose Fiction 2. Workshop. Examine the passages from McEwan’s Atonement and Dickens’s Great Expectations. Pay particular attention to the ways in which a sense of ‘reality’… Read More »
The Art of Lydia Davis
Away from home. It has been so long since she used a metaphor! Metaphors are our means of bringing our disparate worlds together through words. Home in this… Read More »The Art of Lydia Davis
Rain in the Woods
Christopher Robin: printless feet, no bears.
Technorati Blog Claiming
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Edwyn Collins: Girl like you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkKxGzm98AU First time I heard this I thought it recklessly tuneful and decadently sexy! Lollopy guitar too….and he is the come back kid! Windows -down -song with strongly all… Read More »Edwyn Collins: Girl like you
Wolf five : thou
only you and my undivided attention
Just Atoning for McEwan!
Started Atonement and it is exactingly well written: ‘tiny frets about the household’ and ‘the stews of her untidied room.’ Does deliver the ‘tale’ in a crafted, thoughtful style…but it… Read More »Just Atoning for McEwan!
Wolf passion
a gaze raw enough to burn
Cecil Beaton's Thought for the day!
“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary… Read More »Cecil Beaton's Thought for the day!
Wolf five
our lost places uncover souls’ propinquity
Jamie Scott: When Will I see your face again?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d41TPgRdFPs There are advantages to hire cars; not least that the previous driver might have programmed the radio to a radically different set of stations. My fabulous few days in… Read More »Jamie Scott: When Will I see your face again?
Brink ( WOLF FOUR)
stand grey heartedly alone to dare
Soul-deep (Wolf three)
their ridged darkness promised blood – passion…
Dr Zhivago : Lara's Theme
All this talk of wolves makes me remember one of most extraordinary books of the Twentieth Century and one which had a massive emotional impact on me when I read… Read More »Dr Zhivago : Lara's Theme
Wolf two
your eyes more wilderness than prayer
Dear Wolf
That unholy winter’s night became you.
Wish
George did not know how to talk to Demeter. She walked across the lawn towards him like a miracle. The late afternoon sunshine on her red hair whiplashed his face… Read More »Wish
Ian McEwan Atonement
Claire already read and thinks ‘genius’!
Light My Fire: The Doors
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py_JN5lPCC0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y04kUI1mrVc
Pretenders; Don't get me Wrong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9gBTIOxodA
Rodrigo Y Gabriela 'diablo rojo' …' it's a rollercoaster'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lvMQCmUVv8 How irresistible the rhythm and beat of this duo as they really show how to play the acoustic guitar! Puts the wow back into your body and soul! Resist… Read More »Rodrigo Y Gabriela 'diablo rojo' …' it's a rollercoaster'