Geez I suck.
Colbourne (colby@online.net.pg)
Thu, 05 Mar 1998 18:47:05 +1000
Despite the mainstream academic disgust that has probably accompanied
Irvine Welsh's 'Trainspotting', I think that it's excellent.
> take for example cormac mcarthy's unorthodox use of no quotes
It's hard to imagine 'Trainspotting', with quotation marks in it - if
there were any they would greatly diminish the overall effect of the
book, which is stunning. The realism was astonishing. It is one of those
rare books in which you are drowned. It is like nothing I have ever
experienced in literature, or any other medium for that matter.
Talking about conventional literary styles etc. Above I have said 'for
that matter'. I read that a novel is like a running event, sometimes you
have to use cliches because you can't sprint all the time. I can see
their validity in character speech but I think as a rule... fuchk....
'as a rule'.... but I think that it is best to generally avoid the use
of cliches' except when employing them as a literary convention to be
modified eg, 'like a bat out of hell' - 'He ran like a bat out of hell,
except that bats fly instead of running, and he was not running from
hell - he was running to heaven.' People like Douglas Adams and Grant
Naylor do things like this.
Incidentally, Teddy's orange peels struck me as though Salinger had been
there himself.
Today the post finally brought my personal, individually hand-carved
copy of 'Twayne's Masterwork Studies' on the catcher, entitled
'Innocence Under Pressure'. The first page appropriately reads 'For
those who worry about the ducks'.
Room Five O Seven,
S. left us. We left B. in
Room Three O Seven.
CRAP HAIKU:
Nor see more, Seymour,
Some bananas eat themselves
For thee, poor Seymour.
P.S. I was not in the right mood to write this post and it has become as
stupid and inconspicuous as a punch-bowl in a turd. Yes that's right, as
inconspicuous as punch-bowl in a turd.
Godot.