Reflections of a working writer and reader
The middlebrow or the upper Philistine cannot get rid of the furtive feeling that a book, to be great, must deal in great ideas. Oh, I know the type, the dreary type! He likes a good yarn spiced with social comment; he likes to recognize his own thoughts and throes in those of the author; he wants at least one of the characters to be the author's stooge. If American, he has a dash of Marxist blood, and if British, he is acutely and ridiculously class-conscious; he finds it so much easier to write about ideas than about words; he does not realize that perhaps the reason he does not find general ideas in a particular writer is that the particular ideas of that writer have not yet become general. Vladimir Nabokov
Expressionism in Film.
“We have worlds to conquer here,” said Walt Disney during the making of Fantasia.
Set to Modest Mussorgsky’s St John’s Night on the Bare Mountain, a tone poem themed around a witches’ sabbath, these frames from Disney’s Fantasia (1940) should make you want to run out and find a copy of the film:
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thanks for that – just suddenly what I need. Writing a book. You know when just the thing drops into your lap? Merry Solstice time from the dark northlands x
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jb says: Hi Janis. Yes, of course, I know the feeling well. Makes you feel like a magnet.
Weird Walt, eh. Strange, the route things take.