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CORRESPONDENCE of John Cairns with Betty Clark: 1) Intro
Copyright belongs to the John Cairns Archive Nobody helped me with this book, compiled from my archive. Betty Clark gave material in trust it’d be used to her advantage, as happens post mortem: straw and clay for its bricks. Ian … Continue reading
Reading of Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha
It’s difficult to suspend disbelief enough to question the distinction being made between memoirs and biography and autobiography by a patently fictitious translator or accept the ensuing can be a transcription of a tale told. ‘You could run outside and … Continue reading
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Tagged Alasdair Gray, CORRESPONDENCE, Johnny, Mrs Mandesron, Mum, the book
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Reading of Nixey’s Darkening Age
Xians sacking Palmyra shows they were the Islamists of their day. A Xian wrote rubbish about their oppression ending when there hadn’t been much, and too little too late. Antony lived in a shed, perhaps pigsty. Listlessness as accidie, sloth, … Continue reading
Reading Rumi
It’s continually irritating: the presumption of a transcendent god, the imprecise spirituality, the false paradoxes of any self-promoting religious literature to make out its lies are truth. There are glitterings of poetry. The hashishins are the assassins ‘who come in … Continue reading
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Tagged 'the book', Betty Clark, consciousness, CORRESPONDENCE, Doris Lessing, Iris Murdoch, Johnny, spirit, unconscious
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Shelley, a Reading
With Ode to the West Wind, Shelley characteristically weds style to content – like Berlioz in music – or form, as in Ozymandias, Ramesses II, an irregularly rhymed Petrarchan sonnet, with the turn in the last six lines. England in … Continue reading
Literary Response to Blog of the book
Michele asked, ‘Have you had any response from the literary world?’ It’s keeping schtum as is its wont. The coterie appreciate each other’s but don’t know what to say about my writing. Des Wilson complained the short story didn’t have … Continue reading
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Tagged An instance from which telepathy can be proved... etc, Betty Clark, CORRESPONDENCE, Dadaoism: An Anthology, Daniel Corrick, Des Wilson, homophobia, Jacyntha Crawley, Jan, Jean, John Elliott, John Murch, Justin Isis, Kevin, Kipublishing, Michele, Quentin S Crisp, Sacrum Regnum II, writing group
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31: return
In for a pound. ? ‑ing? The drag of nothing against my legs is easing as I push along the side of the bath toward the outside door, the door out, not in, the door in is the bathroom door, … Continue reading
A Third Mars Trilogy
A Fighting Man of Mars is Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Hamlet. ‘There are occasions in the life of every man when he becomes impressed by the evidence of the existence of an extraneous power which guides his acts, which is sometimes … Continue reading
Review of Living on Paper, Murdoch’s letters
The introduction assesses the author’s promiscuity and effect on a wartime lover. She was being honest in the letters to him I read. (I hadn’t realised Theo died shortly after as a result of Vincent Van Gogh’s suicide. ) I’ve … Continue reading
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Tagged 'Under the Net', A Severed Head, attention, bad faith, Betty Clark, chance, communist, CORRESPONDENCE, Giles Gordon, goodness, guilt, Ireland, Iris Murdoch, Islam, letter, magic, masochism, sexuality, The Bell, unconscious, Xian
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Review of Murdoch’s Existentialists and Mystics
Murdoch says, in a revised conversation with Magee, ‘any artist must be at least half in love with his unconscious mind which after all provides his motive force and does a great deal of his work.’ Mine was behind Sketch … Continue reading
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Tagged 'the book', An instance from which telepathy can be proved... etc, anamnesis, Betty Clark, consciousness, CORRESPONDENCE, Dark Side of the Moon, goodness, Iris Murdoch, love, man, Phoenixflower, poems, Sketch of a Just Man, Snowhite and the Psychopathic Dwarf, telepathy, truth, unconscious, will
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