tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post3779608998169759682..comments2023-07-22T15:44:42.859+01:00Comments on More about the song - rambling with Rachel Fox: A couple of thingsRachel Foxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11803852725693518924noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-78137292380574052112008-07-15T21:44:00.000+01:002008-07-15T21:44:00.000+01:00Will get to more Brautigan some time, Jim, but I'm...Will get to more Brautigan some time, Jim, but I'm currently reading several other things...lots of books I've swapped for 'More about the snog's.<BR/><BR/>Hi Kat...well done on podcasting..I caught your artistic cats! I have some audio files on my website...meant to do some more but haven't got round to it yet. Have also been nagged to film some poems somehow for youtube but have yet to enter that world of tiny, tiny tv screens! Maybe after the summer...4 sets of visitors down, 1 set to go!<BR/>xRachel Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11803852725693518924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-18445221520552324882008-07-15T17:10:00.000+01:002008-07-15T17:10:00.000+01:00I am greatly intrigued with this Brautigan writer....I am greatly intrigued with this Brautigan writer. I shall have to track it down.<BR/><BR/>Until now I had never seen the construction "a spell was bound", but I think it a fine one. Far more impact than the conventional usage.<BR/>I too, have those epiphanic(?) moments of sheer delight in a piece of music or the spoken word or even watching someone dance. It makes one grateful to be alive.<BR/><BR/>Kat<BR/><BR/>P.S. I have just put a podcast on my blog, wherein you can hear me reading a variety of my works.Kat Mortensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16877694888419628533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-85840707520635902272008-07-15T00:02:00.000+01:002008-07-15T00:02:00.000+01:00I am so pleased you've discovered him. And Willard...I am <I>so</I> pleased you've discovered him. And <I>Willard and his Bowling Trophies</I> is a great start. I just loved the two stories flipping back and forth until the very end. The Logan brothers are funny, Bob and Constance are funny, but it's not rolling-about-on-the-sofa-funny … and it's also tragic too, that the Logan brothers would devote their time to this quest and that Bob and Constance have such an uncomfortable relationship. It's also a beautifully-written book.<BR/><BR/>In real life, Willard was a <I>papier máché</I> sculpture, a bird about four feet high painted red, white, and orange with big, round eyes, a pot belly, and long beak created by Brautigan's friend Stanley Fullerton. Brautigan and Price Dunn enjoyed elaborate practical jokes on each other as part of passing Willard back and forth between themselves.<BR/><BR/>Now, have a look at the used books in Amazon and see what's cheap. You can get <I>Trout Fishing in America</I> for 33p and you might check out his daughter's memoire <I>You Can't Catch Death</I> too.Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.com