the idea of strangeness vs. strangeness itself.
he seems to embody it in his writing.
it takes more trust in the reader (i have been thinking about
this--distance created via "ideas" vs. the actual thing)
"I cud feal it in the guts and barrils of me. You try to make your self 1
with some thing or some body but try as you wil the 2ness of every thing is
working agenst you all the way. You try to take holt of the 1ness and it
comes in 2 in your hans. (p. 149)"
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From: David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: Russell Hoban
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I'm glad to see that, bobbi, I think you'll find a lot in him. The quote is
very characteristic.
On 15 December 2011 15:42, bobbi lurie <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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
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> > > > http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
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> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > 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
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