you should have said something like:
"I wish to follow in the footsteps of Byron's days in Venice."
BTW, just watched The Proposition, excellent Oz film.
Roger
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:20 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I once applied for a few free weeks in the Australian Writer's Apartment in
> Venice.
>
> It seemed a fair idea to sound confident so I offered to
>
> 'put Venice on the literary map'.
>
> I missed out, and have never applied for anything since.
>
>
> On 27/4/08 1:38 AM, "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Dave
> >
> > it is a genre, a very special one at that, & some are masters of it....
> >
> > Doug
> > On 26-Apr-08, at 3:38 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
> >
> >> He is serious about the point though: if people's main energies as
> >> writers go into making applications for institutional funding, if that
> >> becomes their prime preoccupation as writers, you may well get writing
> >> that is in effect a representation or reflection of that.
> >
> > Douglas Barbour
>
>
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