Fwd: southern cross
Camille Scaysbrook (c_scaysbrook@yahoo.com)
Mon, 02 Aug 1999 11:06:57 +1000
Apologies for all these tardy posts - I have recently had email problems
(damn Geocities got sold to damn Yahoo, etc etc) and thanks to dear Tim
realised none of my mail was getting through. If any perchance did, please
excuse the following volley of forwards.
Camille
> The thing I find about Patrick White is that even if you're not terribly
> interested in what he's saying, the sheer artistry of the way he is
saying
> it carries you along. I read `Voss' the same way one looks at the Sistine
> Chapel (did I mention he was also a damn fine dramatist? The best and
most
> satisfying role I played in my brief but memorable acting career was the
> Landlady in his `The Ham Funeral'). But I'm curious to know what this
> `thing' that worries you so much is? Is it just because he was such a
> crankly old bastard (: ?
>
> Camille
> verona_beach@geocities.com
>
> > But, Camille, I thought there was always something
> > a little bit - well, how do I put this - something not
> > quite er, errum, not quite *orthodox* may I say, about
> > dear old Pat White.
> >
> > Not that I'd say a thing against the chap. I'm proud
> > to say I have many - very many - friends of all sorts
> > of persuasions: darker skinned people, Jewish people,
> > people with special educational needs, liberals, women,
> > all sorts....
> >
> > But there's something. I don't know what it is. It
> > just comes over me. I'm sure it's not anything to do
> > with his feeling for chaps. Maybe it's the Jung.
> >
> > Scottie B.
> >
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