David,
I thank you because I never heard of him. This hit me:
“I find myself wondering what it is that looks out through my eyeholes,
and I really don’t know. It’s this strangeness that I’m always pursuing in
my writing, and it’s this sorrow in each of us that I’m trying to get to
and depict as accurately as I can.”
Reading the above quote, I know I must seek him out (anyone who can write
that), thanks to you.
bobbi
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 3:47 AM, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]
> wrote:
> Thanks, bobbi. I was fond of his books, particularly (of course) Riddley
> Walker. He had more poetry and imagination in him than all too many poets.
>
> On 15 December 2011 00:49, bobbi lurie <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > thank you for sending this.
> >
> > bobbi
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:47 PM, David Bircumshaw <
> > [log in to unmask]
> > > wrote:
> >
> > > it does not seem to be a very healthy time for either British or
> > > British-based writers of distinction. Russell Hoban, the American
> > long-term
> > > Londoner, a novelist who could equal a poet, elegantly remembered in
> the
> > > Telegraph:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/8957087/Russell-Hoban-dedicated-to-strangeness.html
> > > --
> > > David Joseph Bircumshaw
> > > "The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe
> > is
> > > that none of it has tried to contact us."
> > > - Calvin & Hobbes
> > > Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> > > http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
> > > The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> > > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
> > > twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
> > > blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
> > >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> David Joseph Bircumshaw
> "The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is
> that none of it has tried to contact us."
> - Calvin & Hobbes
> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
> twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
> blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
>
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