i didnt think you were dissing them, mate
but their quality wasnt made clear and i wanted to do so
there is so much junk
theyre light, but light is ok
one joke with variations
but it's a good joke and it leaves harry enfield's teenager way behind
L
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From: david.bircumshaw [log in to unmask]
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 17:07:16 +0100
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Writerliness
Hi Lawrence
I wasn't trying to diss down the early moles, they were quite funny to be
sure, I was rather thinking of the general dilemma, I'm approaching it now,
so self has an element in that. I only know about the ST things at second
hand, I've never met her meself, but my mate told me that when they went to
open an account for her she put on the only clean set of clothes she had,
this with a cheque for 20,000 pounds in her hand, that's how dire her
situation had become. Anyhow, this is verging on gossip, so I'll be quiet
now.
All the Best
Dave
David Bircumshaw
Leicester, England
Home Page
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Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: Writerliness
the original mole book(s?) were ok
style appropriate to content etc
her problem / financial salvation was that there was then a market for
repetitions even if they were poor
people enjoyed them because they knew they enjoyed them
i dont know how i'd react if i faced that dilemma
L
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From: david.bircumshaw [log in to unmask]
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 14:24:01 +0100
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Writerliness
There's a guy I know who has been friends with Leicester novelist Sue
Townsend since she was 19 years old, the poor lass is going blind now btw.
He tells me that at first she started out as a serious playwright, her work
won critical success but didn't bring in any income of the desirable sort,
so eventually she capitulated and wrote the first of the Adrian Mole novels,
for lucre, my mate had to go to the bank with her when she received the
initial payment from the publishers as she was living on Social Security and
had no means of proving her identity to open a bank account so he had to be
her referee. Now in some ways that seems to suggest a paradigm of the
paradox of the writer in our world, either we keep to artistic integrity and
go broke or head for the hills, those ones (like mountains) made of cash. A
simple antimony I know, and there are many variations therein, but it does
seem to encapsulate the situation in a way.
Best
Dave
David Bircumshaw
Leicester, England
Home Page
A Chide's Alphabet
Painting Without Numbers
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/index.htm
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