tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post4854056828447448431..comments2023-06-28T22:58:28.247+10:00Comments on Sixth In Line: He travels in his headElisabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04015624747225433940noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-49981175738471834362010-09-25T16:42:41.991+10:002010-09-25T16:42:41.991+10:00I don't mind writing a personal blog, and I do...I don't mind writing a personal blog, and I don't mind reading a personal blog. It's why I read yours. The ones that seem personal seem more like "real" writing.Mike McLarenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17881672365554137673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-6076090699114303502010-09-06T21:44:55.715+10:002010-09-06T21:44:55.715+10:00This is such a wonderful post, Elisabeth: the touc...This is such a wonderful post, Elisabeth: the touching and tender glimpse it gives us of this beautiful epistolary relationship. I especially appreciate how you liken letter writing to blogging... the devout and uninhibited attention to the ear of a caring and cared for friend, the element of thinking out loud. Few blogs achieve this as well as you do.<br /><br />I hope you are relatively pain-free and recovering from the horrible mishap with the car.Lorenzo — Alchemist's Pillowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07522265816460154722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-78353377168666868472010-09-05T23:19:27.331+10:002010-09-05T23:19:27.331+10:00A friendship shared through correspondence...beaut...A friendship shared through correspondence...beautiful! Did you read The Gurernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society? Shafer tells a marvelous story thru letters. I think you could, too.Kittie Howardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07756250649095903317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-69114887104797123112010-09-05T05:50:40.431+10:002010-09-05T05:50:40.431+10:00I love that GM replied to your letter even though ...I love that GM replied to your letter even though he thought you were a 'nutter', and that you wrote back and so did he until you had an established epistolary relationship. <br /><br />In my eyes you are one of the celebrity bloggers with all the comments you receive, though I never feel at all unwelcome here. <br /><br />Great post, you are a bit of a nutter, I think, though for me 'nutter' is short for someone too interesting and complex to explain. Maybe that's what GM saw too.Erylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06008344023000459577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-25555606604059611902010-09-05T05:36:52.184+10:002010-09-05T05:36:52.184+10:00lovely post. How I would like to read GM's wr...lovely post. How I would like to read GM's writings. A grand correspondence you to have. You have indeed found an intimate friend in him, and he in you.<br /><br />Too bad so many friends dropped off as his wife was dying...it happens often, sadly. People don't know what to say and they let fear overtake them -- just at the time when their friends need them most.Taradharmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17665801586196931603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-34956791277052359832010-09-05T03:20:13.823+10:002010-09-05T03:20:13.823+10:00You should amend you final paragraph by the way. I...You should amend you final paragraph by the way. It should read, “…in places like Sweden and now France, oh, and there’s one bloke in Scotland who’s quite keen on him too.” My next planned project is a review of <i>Barley Patch</i> and, if I can find the time, an essay highlighting some of the points made in the documentary you sent me. My daughter bought me a copy of <i>Tamarisk Row</i> which she presented with the comment, “Rather you than me, Dad.” I have to say the spaces between the lines could be a bit wider but it’ll get read although probably not in time for the essay. I’ve already read <i>Barley Patch</i> once and so it should be such hard going this time only this time I’ll be writing with a pad next to me.<br /><br />I am a little jealous that you have had an opportunity to get to know Murnane as you have. All my heroes are dead. They all died when I was too young to hold up my end of the conversation or at least to have a decent stab at it. I was pleased when I came across the video clip of Beckett talking. I’m not one of these people who’s more interested in the author than their books but it was nice to see him in a human context; I’m easily pleased.<br /><br />As regards your blogs I always read them as if I’m the only person you’re talking to but that’s what we do with any piece of writing, make it our own. I’m thinking just now: <i>I bet she gets a lot less comments on this post. Half of ‘em won’t even know who Murnane is</i>. So I feel a little superior. I have a book signed by him, even if he did get the city wrong, something which I think would amuse rather than embarrass him.<br /><br />Can you imagine though how long it would take for Future Creature to work her way through all those cabinets? Even though I wish you a long life I doubt you have the time left. I do hope she at least gets round to publishing a biography so that we can work out which bits of his books are true autobiography and where after that he lets his imagination - I use the term loosly - stray.<br /><br>Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-40903375196204190472010-09-05T01:44:26.900+10:002010-09-05T01:44:26.900+10:00Wow. This post covered so much ground which I have...Wow. This post covered so much ground which I have gone over too.<br />First off- some of us are Persistent Communicators. We find each other and a lifetime of communication becomes a necessary part of both lives. <br />You and GM obviously have THAT! <br />And yes, I know what you mean when a blog reaches celebrity status. There seems to be no need to add my "two cents" to the pouring out of comments. But I know that each and every comment I get is read, cherished, and usually answered which makes it all more of a communicative effort AND a community which is what, in my heart, I want. <br />Thank-you for this good and thoughtful post.Ms. Moonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09776404747858099919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-22378907061791056372010-09-05T01:29:15.775+10:002010-09-05T01:29:15.775+10:00I'm determined to check him out now. Thanks f...I'm determined to check him out now. Thanks for such an interesting introduction. And I loved reading your thoughts about blogging. It is really hard to know sometimes what level to be at when you're writing. Blogs have really become an enriching way to learn about the world for me, and also just a nice way to connect.Niamh Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06519443787482685320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-61273879644201949852010-09-05T01:19:43.844+10:002010-09-05T01:19:43.844+10:00Beautiful post about a friendship through correspo...Beautiful post about a friendship through correspondence.<br />There is so much that can be revealed in the written word, that the spoken word never can touch. A written word offers a certain kind of intimacy, that is on an intellectual level, rather than physical.<br />This story reminded me of the movie "84 Charing Cross Road", starring Anthony Hopkins; if you have not seen it, you should - I think you would enjoy it.;)<br />Have a lovely weekend,<br />xoZuzanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02137958790178864561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-83372455284764553902010-09-04T22:03:40.692+10:002010-09-04T22:03:40.692+10:00elisabeth - thankyou for this post so filled with ...elisabeth - thankyou for this post so filled with unpacking - relational unpacking. the most intriguing aspect of it for me is the piece dealing with the intimacy of shared understanding that takes place in your letters that "in writing to one another we say more than we would ever say in real life". how intriguing that "face-to'face" constitutes real life as compared with letters! in moving on to your discussion of blogging and the sorts of intimacy encountered (or not) there, the same feature arises there. i do believe that the quality and nature of the writing that occurs in the very popular blogs necessarily changes. whether that comes from within the writer or is compelled upon the writer by the audience - well that's a question i'd need to ponder. stevenstevenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14132104804524716898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-84025808831630264572010-09-04T20:35:40.141+10:002010-09-04T20:35:40.141+10:00So much there. Too much for a quick reaction. Beau...So much there. Too much for a quick reaction. Beautifully written , but I need to come again. Marvellous.Dave Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08430484174826768488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-74565657979974674512010-09-04T16:52:49.698+10:002010-09-04T16:52:49.698+10:00Elisabeth, the way you write and share your though...Elisabeth, the way you write and share your thought processses and conclusions is awe-inspiring.<br /><br />Blogs are personal letters of sorts; confessionals to no-one and everyone and despite the print media's bleating about society become depersonalised or techno-obsessed, I've found the complete opposite in the blogosphere.<br /><br />None of my writing opportunites or unusual career turns would have happened without the humble blog. I wouldn't have 'met' you, for starters!Kath Locketthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09677312773827236567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-53828986148740308492010-09-04T15:11:49.514+10:002010-09-04T15:11:49.514+10:00Thank you for introducing me to GM; it's good ...Thank you for introducing me to GM; it's good to see that these letters stand for a very humane and creative human being rather than an inhuman conglomerate of automobile manufacturers.vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-18230335629504848602010-09-04T14:45:03.085+10:002010-09-04T14:45:03.085+10:00I've never heard of him.I've never heard of him.R.H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04639593801088008224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-46937488788394204702010-09-04T14:44:29.447+10:002010-09-04T14:44:29.447+10:00This post is both deeply mysterious and powerfully...This post is both deeply mysterious and powerfully familiar, and I can't put my finger on where it leans. You manage to create an intimacy in your writing, and I don't know just how you do it. It's seductive --Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03313726816776097840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28133718.post-30130626438310089062010-09-04T14:10:10.273+10:002010-09-04T14:10:10.273+10:00Oh how I love this post. So honest and beautiful. ...Oh how I love this post. So honest and beautiful. Deeply intrigued by Future Creature.PurestGreenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10860331983741242940noreply@blogger.com