A Writer’s Wishlist
17 Feb 2009 (this was on a Tuesday)
I wish I could write as quickly as I think.
I wish I could think as quickly as you read.
I wish you would read as slowly as I write.
I wish I could write as quickly as I think.
I wish I could think as quickly as you read.
I wish you would read as slowly as I write.
February 17th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Well, I for one, look forward to whatever it is you’re writing…
February 17th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
So you promise to read it slowly, then… :-)
March 17th, 2009 at 1:23 am
You’re an excellent writer who possesses concision and exactitude but dont be selfish. write somewhat faster you eloquent blog-head.
March 17th, 2009 at 1:40 am
That’s the best goddamn criticism/praise I’ve received in a long time. Much appreciated! (And, yes, as a matter of fact — and not just of post-eloquent cliché — I promise to write faster in the future).
March 17th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Well, pleasure to make your acquaintance young Eyolf. Enough chit-chat. This might interest you: Lapis Lazuli by W.B Yeats, stanza 2, second half: “All men have aimed at, found and lost;// Black out; Heaven blazing into the head:/ Tragedy wrought to its uttermost.”
March 18th, 2009 at 12:20 am
Sorry about calling you “Young Eyolf”, its a throwback from the days when I thought yoko ono was an artist. But seriously I’m much older now (No Bob! Age doesn’t doesn’t work that way, silly-billy).
March 18th, 2009 at 2:02 am
I’m old enough to be flattered to be called young and wise enough to know it’s not true…
March 23rd, 2009 at 10:44 pm
Last comment ever this week (I swears it on da grave of me dog, Maximus). stumbled upon an Auden poem “As I walked out one evening”, ’twas published in 1938. I was struck immediately by its resemblance to “As I went out one morning” on JWH, and was immediately disappointed by its lack of resemblance in content (bar that vague poetic way writers have who employ sweeping and conservative statements simultaneously), but on closer examination they’re both in ballad meter (borrowed from Dickinson, who I AM SURE Dylan read) with the same ABCB rhyme scheme and almost identical syllables per line. Also Auden’s piece was originally titled “Song”. Tenuous connections of which there may be no method to my madness, at most I can “hope” for a sub-conscious copying of style from Dylan, but there’s probably nothing to it. Have also found even-more-tenuous links (if possible) between “Frankie Lee and Judas priest ” and the standard “Frankie and Johnny”, but I’d say at this stage I just need to get a job.