passion
August 5, 2009
- In my case, an obsession, or compelling motivation, would be writing. Whether or not I'm actually putting words on paper, scenarios play in my head. Other obsessions are web design and painting. I sometimes wonder if Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a factor in the editing and art process. Writing and art also qualify as passions . . . love objects . . . I should take them out to dinner maybe. ...
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August 5, 2009
- We live in a rational age - or do we? Politics is more about challenge and posturing these days than about a marketplace of ideas. We fight wars screaming with ideology, not the saber-rattling Realpolitik of the past. In sports: football, basketball, and baseball were once the showplace of muscle and speed-enforced strategies. Today they're the stuff of entertainment - the hail Mary, the trey ...
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August 5, 2009
- Summed up in a piece I wrote about my first great love, first great obsession, first great fixation. What came out was a poem:If you could see me now, this far awayWhat would you do, my love? What would you say?The fearless child who took the whole world onOn your behalf - would you decide, she's gone?Those big green eyes your touch, your kiss, once firedWould you look down at them, and think, ...
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August 5, 2009
- “The duration of passion is proportionate to the original resistance of the woman.” Honoré de Balzac. Passage from THE WOLF AND THE LAMB, Book One of the Berkeley Trilogy It was into this microcosm over which Mary had gained some degree of mastery, that Lord Berkeley made his incursion in gold lace and heavy regimental boots. One ...
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August 5, 2009
- Dear Reader,Reading Jess Wells' Red Room blog posting on self-discipline, I found myself a bit puzzled -- at first. In it, she talks of self-discipline, of setting aside specific time to write every Sunday and refusing all other offers, including Afternoon Delight with a frisky lover.My problem, I thought, is the opposite. When I wrote "The Jewel of Medina" and its sequel, "The ...
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July 11, 2009
- I just finished reading Saints in Limbo by River Jordan. I was lucky enough to hear her read and talk some about her life and writing this June during the Women’s National Book Association’s annual conference in Nashville. She is a full-blown delight, who talks a mile-a-minute, and you hope she’ll never stop. I can’t put my finger on the exact genre – this book seems to be in a class by ...
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May 29, 2009
- I'm adding an ‘R' of my own - "Rethinking" - after my post of May 20th, "The Moods of Memoir." In that post, I referenced Faith Popcorn's 4 Rs as her forecast for 2009. Those trends that people are beginning to assume are as follows: "Reclaiming" - We are reclaiming our lives. "Retrenching" - We are pulling together and retrenching with "cuddles ...
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May 20, 2009
- Twenty observations on 'the smoke made with the fume of sighs." Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage. Ambrose Bierce Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect... E M Forster Whoso loves, ...
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April 29, 2009
- Remainder, by TomMcCarthy, a British writer and artist, is a great reminder of how writing interacts with the world of art and its concern with space. Remainder, told in the first person, is a book about a man with amnesia who--as a result of an accident--gets over 8 million pounds as compensation on the condition that he never talk about it. He remembers nothing of his past. ...
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April 21, 2009
- In wanting to become an author. I began writing fiction, I soon realized, I was not writing fiction but non-fiction based of real happenings in my life.I wrote in the third person. I regurgitated horrible incidents in my life. As I put pen to paper it was easy to write them in another persona. I found that it was easy to write story’s based of truth in a very fictional way.I have looked ...
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