Thanks Doug & Stephen. My British sympathies come naturally, since I grew up listening
to my grandfather's terse British accent. Studying with Donald Davie and Ian Watt
reinforced the tendency. That interview question I posed to Tom Raworth about his poem
"Claudette Colbert by Billy Wilder" is indeed not far behind my work "The Go-Between",
especially considering the intuitive rather than systematic chance process of composition.
Barry
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:19:24 -0700, Douglas Barbour wrote:
All neatly done, Barry, & the terseness seems to belong....
Doug
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:31:48 -0800, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>Nice, Barry. So sympathetically British of a sort! God! Tom Raworth's rip-saw is not far
behind here.
>
>Stephen
>http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>
>--- On Wed, 11/18/09, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>From: Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Snap That Go-Between
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 10:32 AM
>
>THE GO-BETWEEN
>
> via Joseph Losey, Harold Pinter, & L.P. Hartley
>
>
>Are you casting black magic?
>Not lately.
>
>Would you like to learn?
>I feel quite nonplussed.
>
>We were hard at it all the time.
>Yes we were.
>
>What cheek!
>What should we do?
>
>Order him off!
>Just one more header.
>
>He was gored by the Boers.
>You can bore me with your life stor . . .
>
>
>Barry Alpert / Silver Spring MD US / 11-18-09 (1:31 PM)
>
>No advance planning involved in this circumstance--I arrived after the film had begun
and
>simply started writing down lines after a bit. Then I stopped, after a period of no more
>than 10 minutes. Though normally I would try to end up with 12 lines since there were
>12 letters in the title, I was surprised when I looked at the rough draft a day afterwards
>and discovered that I had intuitively written 12 lines, each of which could be used.
When
>I began viewing films seriously, Losey & Pinter's "The Servant" intrigued me, but I didn't
>expect to find this collaboration so simpatico.
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