Hello everyone On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 1:15 AM, 118 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dan, > Well, I only have "There Come a Bad Cloud AND Apache Nation. I will > wait till you publish Billy on Kindle. I can deal with the New Yorker > style excerpts for the time being.
Dan: Yes, a few of the stories in Bad Cloud appeared here too, as did Apache Nation. At least in their infancy... >> Dan: >> >> Right now, I don't. Come January though I am hip-deep in it. Chicago >> winters, don't you know... > > [Mark] > I have been watching Chicago Code on TV which starts the female welder > who becomes a dancer under buckets of water, so that she can win the > dance contest and get into the NY academy of Dance. I guess when that > fails, she becomes the Chief of Police. Is there any reality to that > the Chicago Code? Dan: I don't really know having never seen the show. I don't watch regular tv but I do like to watch a good movie now and again. Chicago is known for its corruption which isn't limited to the city itself. We have four former governors either in prison, just out of prison, or heading that way. You have to know someone who knows someone. > >> >> Dan: >> I believe he was born in 1924. Don't know the exact date. I am sure >> it's on Ian's site though. > > [Mark] > My dad was born August 26, 1924. But, he was on the wrong continent > at the wrong time. Became a hero however. His underground name was > Lange Jan, which means Long John. He was six foot six. Now he is > about six foot. My dad was born in that year as well. >> > >> Mark: >>> I am having a hard time figuring out the plot. >>> Something about indians dying to meet girls who do not want to stay >>> unless God's prayers are answered. >> >> Dan: >> The way I see it, Lisa has been hurt by men her whole life, probably >> starting with a father who either deserted or ignored her. Yet she is >> attracted to them too, for reasons she cannot fathom. She hates being >> alone. So she reaches out, hoping to find that white knight who will >> take her up on his steed and carry her off into the sunset. But there >> are no white knights. So she is frustrated both with men and with >> herself for putting up with them. > > [Mark] > I am reading a book by Gibson. I can't make it out and I am > two-thirds of the way through it. Something about a girl who is > working for the richest man after THE WAR, who incidentally killed her > father. >> >> The plot has to do with finding sanity in an insane world. Billy is >> quite literally out of his mind. There is no metaphor at work. He sees >> things and hears things that are not there. He is dangerous not only >> to himself but those around him. Yet he is so affable that people like >> Lisa are naturally drawn to him despite the consequences that he warns >> them about. Billy isn't an Indian and he isn't quite white. He falls >> somewhere between the cracks. His bloodline is not respected in either >> world. > > [Mark] > I like that. There are endless possibilities. I have Don Quixote > next to my bed for night reading. Check this out: > > Chapter 60 > Characters: Don Quixote and Sancho Panza > Scene: Riding on the way to Barcelona > > he called out to DQ for help. DQ, going to him, asked him what the > matter was, and what he was frightened at. Sancho answered, that ll > those trees were full of men's legs and feet. DQ felt them, and > immediately guessed what it was, and said to Sancho: > "You need not be afraid; for what you feel , without seeing, are > doubtless, the feet and legs of some robbers and banditti, who hanged > upon these trees: for here the officers hang them, when they can catch > them, by the twenties and thirties at a time, in clusters: whence I > guess I am not far from Barcelona" > And, in truth, it was as he imagined. > And now, the day breaking, they lift up their eyes, and perceived, > that the clusters hanging on those trees were so many bodies of > banditti: and, if the dead had scared them, no less were they > terrified by the above forty living banditti, who surrounded them > unawares, bidding them, in the Catalan tongue , to be quiet, and stand > \still, till their captain came. DQ was on foot, his horse unbridled, > his lance leaning against a tree, and, in-short, defenseless; and > therefore he thought it best to cross his hands , and hang his head, > reserving himself for a better opportunity and conjecture. Te robbers > fell to rifling Dapple , and stripping him of everything he carried in > the wallet or the pillion; and it fell out luckily for Sancho, that he > had scared the crowns given him the by duke, and those he brought from > home, in a belt about his middle, But for all that, these good folks > would have searched and examined him, even to what lay hidden between > the skin and the flesh, had not their captain arrived just in the > nick. > > To be continued... Dan: Yes, Don Quixote... a favorite of mine too. > " >> > >> One book I read recently, called Gilead, was written entirely in >> second person... a very well-constructed book that was more an open >> letter than what you would call a proper novel. > > I like Ken Kesey's second novel, Sometimes a Great Notion. He changes > the narator's view all the time and gets away with it. If only I > could write like that. Dan: Yes, a good writer learns tricks to do that. Whenever I come across someone who I would like to emulate, I actually do write like them, at least until I find my own voice. Mark: I also wish I knew how to use colons like > Cervantes. Dan: Oh, you need The Chicago Manual of Style [http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html]. It is invaluable for knowing proper grammar and punctuation. >> >>>Mark: >>> Thanks for the literature, >> >> You're welcome. Thank you too for inspiring it. > > Stop dawdling, get back to work, there are pages to be writ. Always tap, tap, tapping away... Thank you, Dan Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
