>Douglas Barbour wrote:
>
>
>something acknowledging its already a quote from
>somewhere/someone
>> else,
>
>Spending more and more time in bed, reading and writing,
>I've now got a book full of my notes for 'the novel' - you
>know, the one we are all going to write/complete one day.
>But what I'm finding is that I keep recognising things in my
>notes that are not meant to be derivative of other novels,
>but which could be interpreted that way. HAve I, in 40 years
>or so of reading, read all the possible plot and character
>developments there are and stored them all in my unconscious
>only to have them surface like cockroaches to pollute my
>work. How do you recognise 'new' material in all this stuff?
>Is there anything new?
>
>Prolly fundamental writer stuff. How does one deal with it?
>
One of the ways, Josephine, is that taken by Christian Bök, in that all
those amazing sentences still tell stories we already 'know' & want to know
again...
Doug
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
the heart in its cage stands up
desiring fine instruments
Michele Leggott
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