Today has been a good day. I woke at 9am, and bought a tub of hummus and 10 lira’s worth of hot, freshly made bread. After a cup of tea and my breakfast salad, I began writing. This was good news, as the last few days, I’ve been working very, very slowly on the [...]
Entries from October 2007
October 27, 2007
TS Eliot and his spectre
“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion but an escape from emotion. Poetry is not an expression of personality but an escape from personality. But only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.”
TS Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent
I love TS Eliot’s poetry, but [...]
October 24, 2007
28 Weeks Later
I’ve watched a lot of zombie-apocalypse films, and there are two essential problems with almost every film in the genre.
1. The inevitable siege. Every zombie film (e.g. Land of the Dead, 28 Days/Weeks Later, Shaun of the Dead) sooner or later reaches the “siege” scene. It’s inevitable because there is nothing else one can [...]
October 19, 2007
Hemingway
It’s hard to think about Hemingway. His early life seems a model of how to live as a writer; his later life a model of how not to. His short stories are grand feats, yet they don’t move me at all. From my incomplete reading of his works, his best is “The Old Man and [...]
October 17, 2007
Arabic practice
This is all written in spoken Arabic, by the way – not MSA.
–
Daniel
