Joanna I have one, Yvonne Vera's "Butterfly Burning". I've been
waiting for some category to place that turdy book into. though note I
say "turdy", not "a turd", hence there are SOME miniminimal
positivities in the thing. symbolism tickles m'fancy, even when it's
so obvious & self-righteous that I retch a little like a robin with a
caterpillar he wanted to be a worm oh shit Jon's stream of
superconsciousness has affected me temporarily rarely readily verily
end
KS
On 01/08/07, Joanna Boulter <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> What about that other category, of people one has been reverse-influenced
> by? I mean the people one has to read for one reason or another, but learns
> from by deciding not to write like that.
>
> Many of them aren't particularly famous (and just as well), but you can
> think Jeez, I wouldn't be seen dead putting my name to *that*, and go on to
> work out why not.
>
> joanna
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Cudmore" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 5:31 PM
> Subject: Re: PS Re: influential books
>
>
> > And then there are the folks one wishes had influenced people you'd rather
> > not have been influenced by...
> >
> > P
> >
> >>
> >> Another category: folks one wishes one had been influenced by.
> >>
> >
>
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