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Hello, and, are there any other aspiring writers amongst us?!
(part 12 of x) In Allen GInsberg’s *Howl* he says ‘lost battalions of conversationalists’. Someone was once attending a party with S. T. Coleridge, and said “it seemed like he would talk forever; and you wanted him to go on forever”. In *The part played by labour in the transition between ape...- benaspiringwriter
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Hello, and, are there any other aspiring writers amongst us?!
(part 11 of x) Elsewhere in chapter 5 of *The History of Mr Polly*, *Romance*, H. G. Wells says ‘..Polly tried to think he would be almost as happy wandering alone, but he knew better. He had dreamt of casual encounters with delightfully interesting people by the wayside—even romantic...- benaspiringwriter
- Post #51
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Hello, and, are there any other aspiring writers amongst us?!
(part 10 of x) ‘...On a cold December morning in the year 1612, a young man, whose clothing was somewhat of the thinnest, was walking to and fro before a gateway in the Rue des Grands-Augustins in Paris. He went up and down the street before this house with the irresolution of a gallant who...- benaspiringwriter
- Post #50
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
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Hello, and, are there any other aspiring writers amongst us?!
(part 9 of x) Elsewhere in chapter 4 of *The History of Mr Polly* H. G. Wells says ‘Nobody missed Mr Polly for a long time’ In *The Great Gatsby* F. Scott Ftizegrald has his narrator say of Jay Gatbsy, firstly, ‘There was something gorgeous about him’—Foster Wallace talks about the...- benaspiringwriter
- Post #49
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
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Hello, and, are there any other aspiring writers amongst us?!
(part 8 of x) Ludwig V. Beethoven was both a man in thrall to various high-brow muses, but who also spoke to the general public, to the people. One of his most important sayings was ‘From the heart, to the heart!” But this shouldn’t be read as a secret manifesto for the dubious practice of...- benaspiringwriter
- Post #48
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Hello, and, are there any other aspiring writers amongst us?!
(part 7 of x) Elsewhere in chapter 4 of *The History of Mr Polly* H. G. Wells says ‘..The knives and forks, probably by some secret common agreement, clash and clatter together, and drown every other sound..’ In *Visions of the Great Remember* Allen Ginsberg quotes Kerouac’s. also macro...- benaspiringwriter
- Post #47
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Hello, and, are there any other aspiring writers amongst us?!
(part 6 of x) After all, as French film legend, Jean Luc Godard, once argued: ‘photography is truth; cinema is truth 24 times per second”. And as *Guardian* journalist Hadley Freeman once said, reflecting upon both 1980’s movies, and, well, on *life* even more generally, *Life Moves Pretty...- benaspiringwriter
- Post #46
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Hello, and, are there any other aspiring writers amongst us?!
(part 5 of x) Elsewhere in chapter 4 of *The History of Mr Polly* H. G. Wells says ‘...There they were tugging at his mind, and the funeral tugging at his mind too, and the sense of himself as Chief Mourner in a brand-new silk hat with a broad mourning band. He watched the ceremony and...- benaspiringwriter
- Post #45
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Hello, and, are there any other aspiring writers amongst us?!
(part 4 of x) And yet, life goes on without such legends, and parties still, sometimes in a prolifically proliferating manner, emerge on to the proverbial scene, left, right and centre, geographically speaking. However, many decades ago, now, in one of her letters, Virginia Woolf, as well as...- benaspiringwriter
- Post #44
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Hello, and, are there any other aspiring writers amongst us?!
(part 3 of x) Elsewhere in chapter four of *The History of Mr Polly* H. G. Wells says ‘...Things crowded upon Mr Polly. Everyone, he noticed, took sherry with a solemn avidity, and a small portion even was administered sacramentally to the Punt boy. There followed a distribution of black kid...- benaspiringwriter
- Post #43
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Hello, and, are there any other aspiring writers amongst us?!
(part 2 of x) What is more, about Prousts*s *Days of reading*, written, obviously but importantly, before *In search of lost time*, it has been said ‘Marcel Proust conceived *Journées de Lecture*, as an introduction to his translation of John Ruskin’s* Sesame and Lilies*.’ In a youtube video...- benaspiringwriter
- Post #41
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Hello, and, are there any other aspiring writers amongst us?!
(part 1 of x) During chapter four of *The History of Mr Polly*, H. G. Wells says.. ‘...That moment when self-control was altogether torn aside, the shocked discovery of his fathers perfect humanity, had left a singular impression on Mr Polly’s *queer* mind. It was as if something...- benaspiringwriter
- Post #40
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Hello, and, are there any other aspiring writers amongst us?!
Note, I have spotted mistakes in and edited the above 3-part post; there was a serious typo vis-a-vis Beethoven, and a serious, unintended offensive meaning concerning the very last paragraph of the third part of the post. Both have now been edited. Thanks.- benaspiringwriter
- Post #39
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
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Hello, and, are there any other aspiring writers amongst us?!
(part 3 of 3) Moreover, you say.. ‘ 4.) Discouragement. Experience it. (Sorry, tough love here.) I used to think writers needed 'crocodile skin', meaning, that they needed to defend their ideas about their text at all costs. I no longer think that. (It was poor advice.) Rather, they need to...- benaspiringwriter
- Post #38
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Hello, and, are there any other aspiring writers amongst us?!
(2 of 3) At any rate, you go on to say ‘..On comrades. Personally, I'm not interested in buddying up with somebody unless they: a.) share the same vision as I do for the project, b.) share a similar intensity for seeing the project to completion, c.) have an educational or experiential...- benaspiringwriter
- Post #37
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