Iike these lines particularly (just for my pov):
*Are poems reclaimed memories resorted?*
Many of mine are just that, out through a sieve of today's emotions.
Andrew
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On 27 January 2016 at 22:39, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 360 odd pages, Pat. I persisted and was interested in what she had to say
> about migraines and dreams protecting sleep but her pieces about viewing
> art were pretty inconsequential I thought. I do recommend her husband Paul
> Auster's work. I think he would pass the 10-page test eg Smoke,
> Oracle Night, New York trilogy, In the country of last things.
>
> Bill
>
> On Wednesday, 27 January 2016, Patrick McManus <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Bill liked idea of previous readers -wondered how far page 98 was in the
> > book -But sometimes one gets a book with usually pencilled comments some
> > poor person on a course maybe
> > cheers P I am training myself for a ten page rule if it does not work by
> > then out with it -we don't have the time left!
> >
> > -----Original Message----- From: Bill Wootton
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 8:09 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: At least two readers
> >
> > Name: Keough, Michael Philip,
> > one 'l', he must have said
> > many a time, this
> > previous borrower
> > of the book I am reading,
> > Living, Thinking, Looking,
> > a series of essays
> > by Siri Hustvedt,
> > wife of novelist
> > and poet Paul Auster.
> >
> > So how, I wonder,
> > did you find Siri,
> > Michael Philip?
> > Not how did you come by her
> > but how satisfied were you
> > with what Siri offered
> > by way of words?
> > Your borrowing slip
> > from Goldfields Library
> > in Bendigo slipped
> > from page 98, nearly
> > halfway through
> > an examination
> > of the difference
> > between memoir
> > and fiction.
> >
> > Am I to assume this
> > is where you gave
> > Siri short shrift?
> > If so, you did better
> > than I did because
> > by this point
> > I was skimming.
> > Not scanning you
> > understand, not
> > seeking particular
> > information, just
> > eye-raking, hoping
> > to be arrested.
> >
> > 'Memory is flux',
> > mmm. 'Fictions
> > are remembered too'.
> > The whereabouts
> > of storage is moot.
> > Are poems reclaimed
> > memories resorted?
> > Perhaps the next
> > borrower will better
> > justify their slip
> > than you or me,
> > Michael.
> >
> > bw
>
--
Andrew
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