[caption id="attachment_1281" align="alignleft" width="240"]Newest book acquisition: "The View from the Cheap Seats", by Neil Gaiman. My delight at the words could not be contained. :-)[/caption] "I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page as an artist deploys paint upon his palette. Behind every Chesterton sentence, there was someone painting with words, and it seemed to me that at the end of any particular good sentence or any perfectly-put paradox, you could hear the author, somewhere behind the scenes, giggling with delight. "
- Neil Gaiman, "The View From The Cheap Seats"
Category: Life and Literature
On Beards and Manbuns
Very recently, I’ve developed “an extremely strong desire to mentally consume” all episodes of this small screen/ Netflix wonder (read: I binge-watch these episodes in my spare time, with my father occasionally joining to watch. […]
Video: “Say you won’t let go”
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Screams in ink
A short piece on my silent thoughts about writing in a journal and how private things need to be kept private. A diary is like a confessional… the burial ground, the seed bed, the debating […]
The personal narrative
I got this idea after reading Vivian Gornick’s “The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative.” I’m starting to explore this avenue.” And I quote: “The writing we call personal narrative is written […]
