Re: 8/16 Ideas, finite and...Australian author info.

Ed Fenning (ed361@yahoo.com)
Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:59 -0700 (PDT)

--- Ed Fenning <ed361@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> --- 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.

Here 'tis:
Author:  Paul Cowan
Story:   "Shadow" (1958 - The Unploughed Land - original work)
Book:    "A Window In Mrs. X's Place" ...short stories of Paul Cowan
(Penguin Australia 1986 [has U.S. price, export copy])

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