Re: Ideas, finite and infinite
Ed Fenning (ed361@yahoo.com)
Mon, 16 Aug 1999 11:47:41 -0700 (PDT)
--- Camille Scaysbrook <c_scaysbrook@yahoo.com> wrote:
...Ideas are infinite in the head but merely
> finite on the paper'. The dilemma every author
> faces.
Hi Camille,
Though you are absolutely right about this dilemma, the optimist
in me has found many writers who have been able to overcome what can
indeed feel overwhelming. If I’ve read something that has made me take
pause, because I’ve been moved by the what the writer was trying
express, then, I think they have communicated successfully, not only
their insights and ideas, but all the inclusive subtleties and/or
implications that do make the work’s quality infinite.
What immediately sprang to mind was a very short story, from some
years back by an Australian writer, about a grown daughter and her
father going to visit the mother in the hospital on a rainy night.
For me, the subtleties of each person’s perceptions of what went on
that evening, their emotions, remembrances, and personal history; were
conveyed in an immediate and timeless manner by the author.
This is just off the top of my head at work. I’ll have the author’s
name, story, and anthology title, to post tomorrow.
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