Fliterature / Graham Greene vs Malcolm Lowry / Collage: Never Discussed / Vispo: The Pledge

 

Fliterature anyone?

What's that?

It's when you can't settle into a book but keep flitting from one to another.

You never do that? Good for you. But I've been flitting for the last few weeks...fresh starts that turn stale when words fail to hold me in their grip. That's me. I experience these phases about four times a year. No, make that seven. Or ten? 

LJ's reading Carly Simon's Boys In The Trees so whilst we're drinking gin in the summer sun I select You're So Vain. We drink and drink whilst I play DJ with songs we both choose, moving from Prog to Teddy Pendergrass. We drink, but not half as much as Geoffrey Firmin in Lowry's Under The Volcano, of course. The latest book to get the boot. I was determined, I was, but cracked at page 62. I told my friend in the bookshop. He said it was one of his favourite books and I should 'persevere' - pah! - I don't want to have to persevere when I read, thanks. 

Whilst grappling with Lowry's convoluted prose Graham Greene sprang to mind since the Consul features in Under The Volcano so I thought of Greene's Honorary Consul and how much I preferred the Berkhamsted boy's work to that by the one from New Brighton. Lowry had one supposedly great novel in him. Greene had several. Not that the width a writer forms on your shelf necessarily means anything. Never mind the quality, feel the width! No. But GG still beats ML for me.

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RTomens, 2024

A recent collage - made three days ago. I'm an Art Worker now, officially. I gave myself the job. I'm still typing, of course...

RTomens, 2024

Someone recently asked if I'd made any videos or written about my 'technique'. I haven't. Not that it's a bad idea, just that I'm not one to talk much about it at length. Who's that interested? Then again, if I worried about numbers, about how many people were interested, I'd probably give up. Talking of interest and response, look at this. I know how, but don't understand why. What's makes that one so special? When posting in the gallery without walls, you never can tell...

TTFN