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Continuing with Henry Miller
‘He believes in you only in so far as he knows you; the possibility that you are greater than you seem is disturbing for friendship is founded on mutuality’. (Sexus, P28) This seems like an excuse to...
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Henry Miller on the writer’s need for a disciple
‘It doesn’t matter how poor quality the disciple may be: it matter only that he believe implicitly. For a germ to sprout, some other person, some one individual out of the crowd, has to show faith’....
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Euphoria of writing
And describing the private joy of a day spent writing in the head: ‘At last I reached that point where you abandon all hope of remembering your brilliant ideas and you simply surrender to the luxury of...
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Like Anais Nin and Henry Miller
Volume 4 of Anais Nin’s Journal I’m through volume 4 of Anais Nin’s Journal. I wish I could have begun with her childhood diaries, or at least 1931 in Louciennes, Paris. I can commune with an ageing...
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Anais Nin on giving her life meaning
How many seek solace in the journals of a woman in France in the 1930′s? I’ve fallen in love with Anais Nin and Henry Miller and wish, even if it only meant being Richard Osborne to their relationship,...
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Twelve Books that Changed the World
Which are my ‘Twelve Books that changed the world? Help me decide. According to Melvyn Bragg the Twelve Books that Changed the World ( BBC TV Series) are those that follow – then I give you mine. And...
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Blogging works – you too should keep a diary. You can always go private.
‘Maketh up a quote at ye beginning of thy book; it will make people think thou art clever.’ Christopher Marlowe ‘The Obscure Tragedie’ Act II, Scene ii. The following comes from a seminal book on diary...
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Maketh up a quote at ye beginning of thy book; it will make people think thou...
From Christopher Marlowe ‘The Obscure Tragedie’ Act II, Scene ii. The following comes from a seminal book on diary keeping by Tristine Rainer. Here are some key thoughts Some of this thinking can be...
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Why keep a diary then put it online?
A diary is many things ‘Maketh up a quote at ye beginning of thy book; it will make people think thou art clever.’ Christopher Marlowe ‘The Obscure Tragedie’ Act II, Scene ii. The following comes from...
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My favourite 38 posts (give or take the other 15,962)
Trollhaten Falls, Sweden (Where I set the final scenes of ‘The Watersprites’ I’ve done an inadequate sweep of the 600+ entries here in order to select 7 entries and have it roughly down to these 27:...
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