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  • Half the size, twice the price

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    “The first I learned of the new practice of splitting novels to satisfy chain store strictures was when I read Peter Watts’ introduction to ‘Behemoth: B-Max’, which turns out to have been the first half of the final novel in his ‘Starfish’ trilogy. He says in the introduction to this novel — and later confirmed…

  • Writing and brain injury

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    “Day-to-day tasks like making a cup of tea, cooking and remembering things still cause him problems. But despite this he has discovered a talent for writing.” Well, don’t I feel special.

  • Never understanding

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    But suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build. — Anne Sexton, Wanting to Die http://www.poets.org/poems/poems.cfm?45442B7C000C07050E70 Thankfully, I want most to know ‘why build’. Thief — how did you crawl into, crawl down alone into the death I wanted so badly and for so long,…

  • The edge of Hunter S. Thompson

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    “The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.” — Hunter S. Thompson RIP

  • Just a general update, really, no big deal

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    So the bum in front of the church across the road seemed fully into his Gameboy this morning, pressing its little buttons like mad. And then I realised, he didn’t _have_ the Gameboy.* In other news, I’m apparently an Angst Writer. Oh, please, bite me (she said, morosely). I’d paste the dooverlacky text in, but…

  • Writing and drilling

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    “There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.” — Ernest Hemingway Of course Hemingway is an excellent writer. *Of course* he’s an influential writer. Possibly THE most influential writer. I can probably almost recite by heart that…

  • The Spaces In Between

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    I was looking for this quote last night when I was thinking about Bill Henson: “The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes — ah, that is where the art resides.” — Artur Schnabel, pianist, (1882-1951) I like the idea that art is partly knowing when to leave…

  • Nebulous

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    Well, the Nebulas are up all over the place, & it makes me wonder: how on EARTH do you choose which is the better script out of these movies? 1. The Incredibles, by Brad Bird (Pixar, Nov 2004) 2. The Butterfly Effect, by J. Mackye Gruber and Eric Bress (New Line Cinema, Jan 2004) 3.…

  • Bill Henson @ the Art Gallery of NSW

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    “What is that face, breaking our hearts, but a momentary configuration of molecules taking form and changing form and losing form, as night falls.” — Peter Scheldahl, 1989 There is something fragile in Bill Henson’s art, something that implies loss even as it offers substance. Perhaps it’s the way he works with images of age,…

  • Writing and hunting

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    “Writing is like hunting. There are brutally cold afternoons with nothing in sight, only the wind and your breaking heart. Then the moment when you bag something big. The entire process is beyond intoxicating.” — Kate Braverman