It seems to me unnecessary to add that none of the facts are invented.
Entries Tagged as 'Writing'
“If This Is A Man” – Primo Levi
An interesting statement to end the preface of this book in the light of subsequent fact based literary controversies.
April 12th, 2012 · No Comments · Uncategorized, Writing
“Life and Fate” – Vasily Grossman
April 10th, 2012 · No Comments · Quotes, Uncategorized, Writing
He quoted a line from “War and Peace”: ‘Yes, the didn’t just waste their time, they wrote.’
“Life and Fate” – Vasily Grossman
April 10th, 2012 · No Comments · Uncategorized, Writing
The dead pilot lay there all night on a hill covered with snow; it was a cold night and the stars were quite brilliant. At dawn the hill turned pink – the pilot now lay on a pink hill. Then the wind got up and the snow covered his body.
Tags:Death·description·writing
“Life and Fate” – Vasily Grossman
April 4th, 2012 · No Comments · Uncategorized, Writing, WW2
During a German artillery attack on the right bank of the Volga during the Battle of Stalingrad: Suddenly he realised what had happened: the oil-tanks were on fire. Flaming oil was streaming past towards the Volga. It seemed impossible to escape from the liquid fire. It leaped up, humming and crackling, from the streams of [...]
Tags:description·Russia·Stalingrad·war·writing·WW2
“Me Talk Pretty One Day” – David Sedaris
March 29th, 2012 · No Comments · Prose, Uncategorized, Writing
Nothing in France is free from sexual assignment. I was leafing through the dictionary, trying to complete a homework assignment, when I noticed the French had prescribed genders for the various land masses and natural wonders we Americans had always thought of as sexless, Niagara Falls is feminine and, against all reason, the Grand Canyon [...]
“The Road” – Cormac McCarthy
March 27th, 2012 · No Comments · Prose, Uncategorized
This is where I used to sleep. My cot was against this wall. In the nights in their thousands to dream the dreams of a child’s imaginings, worlds rich or fearful such as might offer themselves but never the one to be.
“A good fall” – Ha Jin
March 27th, 2012 · No Comments · Uncategorized, Writing
Certainly I wouldn’t lend her the money, because that might amount to hitting a dog with a meatball—nothing would come back.
Tags:description·writing
Politics, History and Storytelling – “Recollections of a Bleeding Heart” – Don Watson
March 13th, 2012 · No Comments · Campaigning, History, Political Communication, Politics, Prose, Writing
Politics and history are alike and inseparable in that the craft of both is storytelling. Masters of both juggle past and present to create coherent narratives, the historian to make the past knowable, the politician to do this with the present.
Tags:Campaigning·History·Language·Narrative·Political Communication·Politics·Story Telling·writing
Latin and Mass Media Democracy – “Recollections of a Bleeding Heart” – Don Watson
March 11th, 2012 · No Comments · Elitism, Political Communication, Prose, Writing
They cannot expect the House to retain its dignity and traditions when those who have no understanding of either swarm all over the place like tourists at a foreign shrine. You can’t have Latin and wit and mass media democracy.
