Comments on: a booklover’s summer in barnes

By: uzwi

uzwi — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:58:53 +0000

Hi Mia. I never know what I know until it’s written me.

Hi Robert: that’ll do nicely.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:07:53 +0000

MJH: “Always write what you know. The book will tell you what that is.”

Tim Etchells: “Write what you don’t know. Write the world sideways.”

And you’re both right because you’re both saying the same thing, even though the words aren’t.

I’m $100 short of that $100 right now, MJH. I’ve just bought a brand new copy of Viriconium, though, will that do ?

By: Mia Wolff

Mia Wolff — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:32:59 +0000

…maybe when you always write what you know, while waiting for whatever is going to show to actually do so- you end up writing yourself to where you don’t know, where you can meet the event midway. Seems preferable to me to be in the midst of moving towards it if that can be devised.

By: uzwi

uzwi — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:43:50 +0000

Hi Lara. As you say. I deeply admire your “Back in Joburg” post, by the way. Git me in ipple…

Hi Robert, that’ll be $100.

By: Lara

Lara — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:32:00 +0000

C: STOP SMOKING!

Meanwhile, the campaign in Angola for the local favourite fag is…

Just say YES.

(YES being the brand-name of the local white stick that, once, I smoked 40 times a day.)

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:08:37 +0000

Honestly, who needs a cookie-cutter MFA when you have a singular MJH ? Best writing classes in the world, right here…