Last month Rachel Cusk had a brilliant article in the Guardian on women’s writing. She made several good points that illustrate the conundrum many of us find ourselves in. Importantly, she asked whether women’s writing should seek equivalence or distinction from its male counterpart. She’s inclined to agree with Simone de Beauvoir and Virginia Woolf
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Next week we’re going back to England. It feels more hypothetical than done-and-dusted and that’s probably to do with the busy we’ve been keeping. The Euro’s been filming for over a month, and I’ve been eating, sleeping and breathing 1 of 2 manuscripty projects since mid-October. Yesterday I walked home – it was freezing and
Orson Welles meets HG Wells and someone was there to broadcast it. (Please note the misspelling in the video title is not mine.) HG is lovely. And asks Orson about the film he is making – Citizen Kane. Orson Welles: “It’s a new sort of motion picture with a new method of presentation.” HG Wells:
I’ve just eaten a heinous amount of Christmas M&Ms and it’s totally S’s fault because she already has her tree up and Dumplin running around in Christmas tartan. She is heavenly. . We had Pilgrims for Thanksgiving (How very Eats Shoots and Leaves, no?)
For some reason, every time I look at photos of Flynn and me from our EPIC ADVENTURE WEEKEND, I break out in BABOOSHKA and arabesque around the living room. “Babooshka…Babooshku…Babooshku…” See. Told you. Happy Birthday Bunny. I love you. B. xx p.s. A squirrel took this photo. I am dead serious.
Before he became “The Darcy to End All Darcys” the ridiculously talented and RADA-trained Matthew Macfadyen contributed to the DVD ‘Essential Poems (To Fall In Love By)’. A naughty little someone has posted his readings to YouTube. I am very glad of it. W.B. Yeats. When You Are Old. Read by Matthew Macfadyen. William Carlos
I don’t often think of Blossoming Souls when I think of Proust. Most often it’s just this is heavy and Steve Carell. I know that’s terribly silly and unfair. But that’s Rorschach for you.
“I hold the blank page headed Friday November Thirteenth to the light of that day. There seems to my eye some discrepancy between the two. There, outside is the day; as it happens, bluish, cloudy, still and fine. Here is the page; white, smooth. How am I to bring about a marriage between them? But
When I think of everything there is to know and learn, I get so excited my stomach hurts. This evening Steph and I went for sushi but had profiteroles and petite fours instead. Then we watched The Hours and talked about Virginia Woolf and listened to the radio broadcast she did for the BBC in
“I’ve never liked talking about art or literature in general, and I’ve always hated artists who talk about their work rather than doing it.” -Orson Welles The man voted Greatest Director of All Time by the British Film Institute essentially said that he didn’t dare think about deconstruction and criticism of art and literature because
