Comments on: The Grand Tradition http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2007/03/28/the-grand-tradition/ The Fundamentals of Our Publishing are Wrong Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:37:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2007/03/28/the-grand-tradition/comment-page-1/#comment-1355 Anonymous Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:25:00 +0000 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2007/03/28/the-grand-tradition/#comment-1355 I just did a Google image search on Rondo Hatton.<br/><br/>...<br/><br/>Eep. I just did a Google image search on Rondo Hatton.

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Eep.

]]> By: Sean Lindsay http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2007/03/28/the-grand-tradition/comment-page-1/#comment-1354 Sean Lindsay Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:41:00 +0000 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2007/03/28/the-grand-tradition/#comment-1354 I'd still say that Auden is the Rondo Hatten of that rogue's gallery. Anyone game to nominate the hottest?<br/><br/>Apart from the obvious setback that writers usually only achieve lasting fame <i>after</i> their lifetime ... writers by necessity tend to spend a lot of time alone, hunched over a keyboard (or a quill). It's not good for the skin. I’d still say that Auden is the Rondo Hatten of that rogue’s gallery. Anyone game to nominate the hottest?

Apart from the obvious setback that writers usually only achieve lasting fame after their lifetime … writers by necessity tend to spend a lot of time alone, hunched over a keyboard (or a quill). It’s not good for the skin.

]]> By: Anonymous http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2007/03/28/the-grand-tradition/comment-page-1/#comment-1353 Anonymous Wed, 28 Mar 2007 19:43:00 +0000 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2007/03/28/the-grand-tradition/#comment-1353 Auden is Brad Pitt compared with some of these characters:<br/><br/>http://www.epdlp.com/paise.php?pais=EEUU Auden is Brad Pitt compared with some of these characters:

http://www.epdlp.com/paise.php?pais=EEUU

]]> By: M.O. http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2007/03/28/the-grand-tradition/comment-page-1/#comment-1352 M.O. Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:23:00 +0000 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2007/03/28/the-grand-tradition/#comment-1352 <i>If you still want to write, then I've got some work to do.</i><br/><br/>!<br/>More reasons, please!!<br/>Or I'll start posting poetry at Toasted-Cheese!!!<br/>Exclamation points abound the<br/>Ineluctable Modality of the Whimsical<br/>And hard of seeing/being/hearing & (3 dots pointing up triangular)reading.<br/><br/>#<br/><br/>Off topic:<br/><br/>I read Orhan Pamuk's <a HREF="http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2006/pamuk-lecture_en.html" >Nobel Lecture</a> when it was printed in the New Yorker a few months back (?; could have been sooner or later: seems that all the weeks run together when I don't have a real job). I liked this part:<br/><br/><i>A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is: when I speak of writing, what comes first to my mind is not a novel, a poem, or literary tradition, it is a person who shuts himself up in a room, sits down at a table, and alone, turns inward; amid its shadows, he builds a new world with words.</i><br/><br/>What's heartwarming and depressing about that is I see myself in the description. I'm just glad I tricked a woman I love into marrying me before I swore off friends altogether to pursue an art that hates me back. If you still want to write, then I’ve got some work to do.

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More reasons, please!!
Or I’ll start posting poetry at Toasted-Cheese!!!
Exclamation points abound the
Ineluctable Modality of the Whimsical
And hard of seeing/being/hearing & (3 dots pointing up triangular)reading.

#

Off topic:

I read Orhan Pamuk’s Nobel Lecture when it was printed in the New Yorker a few months back (?; could have been sooner or later: seems that all the weeks run together when I don’t have a real job). I liked this part:

A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is: when I speak of writing, what comes first to my mind is not a novel, a poem, or literary tradition, it is a person who shuts himself up in a room, sits down at a table, and alone, turns inward; amid its shadows, he builds a new world with words.

What’s heartwarming and depressing about that is I see myself in the description. I’m just glad I tricked a woman I love into marrying me before I swore off friends altogether to pursue an art that hates me back.

]]> By: Alkelda the Gleeful http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2007/03/28/the-grand-tradition/comment-page-1/#comment-1351 Alkelda the Gleeful Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:42:00 +0000 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2007/03/28/the-grand-tradition/#comment-1351 Thank you for this blog! There are mornings when I think, "Wow, today is a good day to write." Then I read your blog while I drink my coffee, and such notions disappear. On the days you don't post, I begin to weaken and make preliminary outlines for my 10 volume memoir set, my science-fiction/fantasy trilogy, and my pre-teen <a HREF="http://www.teencybercenter.org/Books_and_more/lists/hilo.htm" >hi-lo</a> series about an intrepid heroine (with freckles!) who overcomes middle-school adversity. Then, you return with some pithy <i>bon-mots</i>, and I get a grip. Thank you for this blog! There are mornings when I think, “Wow, today is a good day to write.” Then I read your blog while I drink my coffee, and such notions disappear. On the days you don’t post, I begin to weaken and make preliminary outlines for my 10 volume memoir set, my science-fiction/fantasy trilogy, and my pre-teen hi-lo series about an intrepid heroine (with freckles!) who overcomes middle-school adversity. Then, you return with some pithy bon-mots, and I get a grip.

]]> By: Sean Lindsay http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2007/03/28/the-grand-tradition/comment-page-1/#comment-1350 Sean Lindsay Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:17:00 +0000 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2007/03/28/the-grand-tradition/#comment-1350 Paul, your ex-wife sounds hot. Paul, your ex-wife sounds hot.

]]> By: Paul Riddell http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2007/03/28/the-grand-tradition/comment-page-1/#comment-1349 Paul Riddell Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:15:00 +0000 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2007/03/28/the-grand-tradition/#comment-1349 H.L. Mencken had much the same thing to say about wannabes: he noted that it was always the child with no talents, no real ambitions, and nothing to say who invested in the typewriter and the specialty paper and planned to make a living as a writer. (I remember reading this to my ex-wife, and she completely lost it: of course, this was back when I was writing and she was on a slow boil over wanting to be a writer but being too willing to let television get in the way.) H.L. Mencken had much the same thing to say about wannabes: he noted that it was always the child with no talents, no real ambitions, and nothing to say who invested in the typewriter and the specialty paper and planned to make a living as a writer. (I remember reading this to my ex-wife, and she completely lost it: of course, this was back when I was writing and she was on a slow boil over wanting to be a writer but being too willing to let television get in the way.)

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