Re: de daumier-smithh
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:28:45 +1000
> I love DSBP too--I've felt it's a story that can guide artists. The
> "deal' with the nun may be that artists always attempt what is impossible
> (giving life to paper and ink or electrons in writers' cases for example,
> is an impossibility that art transcends) and DeDaumier Smith must learn
> what his art (and love) can and can't do...by the end of the story he has
> shed much of the pretension I'm afraid I'm still working on, will
Me too - it's my favourite of the Nine Stories, but in a totally different
way to `The Laughing Man' (my other favourite). Where TLM is
straightforward and broad-stroked, BSBP is delightfully oblique. I haven't
entered into the discussion of it because strangely, something in me
resists the attempt to interpret it; to unwind the cogs and undo the screws
that move so beautifully inside this little Zen-masterpiece. I think one
day my thoughts on it might coalesce in an equally simple, subconscious and
perfect way. *Then* I'll post something (:
Yours with easily as little time to spare as Will,
Camille
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