Alison - I hit the 'delete' button instead of the reply button, and I would
have replied b/c but I seem to have your email address under some mysterious
combination ...
So, I wanted to say I sympathise with you 100%, but would offer the virtual
grapes and chocolate ... I need mouth food when I write, or at least a
healthy willing woman afterwards ... Both is pleasant. In your case, you can
change the healthy woman to a healthy man, if this be your pleasure.
For some reason, writing poems is almost a secular version of a sacred act
for me, and I go into a different state. That is why I have to banish such
states while I am writing a novel. Do you find this? (Perhaps I see novel
writing in a classical sense and poems in a romantic way - that'd explain
it.)
I am in awe of Ondaatje's creative journey ... I've only recently read Billy
the Kid and found it brilliant ... I've read everything else of his. A poet
in novels like Coming through Slaughter and Skin of the Lion ... Ah, I would
love my novel to be like Billy the Kid, but sadly it is turning into a plain
ordinary chronological narrative.
More grapes! More chocolate! (Can you get decafeinated chocolate?)
Andrew
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