So I don’t know if I would read her, but others have made these arguments too, & I tend to agree.So I too like the line Andrew was taken by. For me, for a long time, ‘memory is fiction’ has been one of my mantras…
Doug
> On Jan 27, 2016, at 8:45 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Thanks Andrew. One of Husvedt's points was that when we recall a memory and
> it changes a little, the next time we recall it, we are likely to go back
> to that slightly distorted memory, not the original, which is not 'saved'
> in the same way as a computer file for instance.
>
> Bill
>
> On Thursday, 28 January 2016, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> 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]
>> <javascript:;>> wrote:
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>>> 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] <javascript:;>> 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] <javascript:;>
>>>> 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
>> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
>> Books available through Walleah Press
>> http://walleahpress.com.au
>>
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