tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7364957201792783158.post6031728436124600296..comments2019-03-16T22:13:26.796-07:00Comments on Witter...: This Time it's Personal ~ part 4Steve Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04939837731535127700noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7364957201792783158.post-30815386966098238592014-05-14T03:12:55.763-07:002014-05-14T03:12:55.763-07:00Exactly, and thank you.
Vincent is a sort of hero ...Exactly, and thank you.<br />Vincent is a sort of hero of mine. For such a terribly troubled man he tried so hard to be hopeful. I understand he used that golden yellow colour in his paintings because it is the Japanese symbol of hope. Steve Lawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04939837731535127700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7364957201792783158.post-64675003161976794772014-05-11T04:29:03.350-07:002014-05-11T04:29:03.350-07:00To speak fearlessly is a mark of friendship. As is...To speak fearlessly is a mark of friendship. As is shaking hands. This is surely a fraternal relationship and not parent-child.<br /><br />If you have read the letters of Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo, you will know that he often ends them like this:<br /><br />"A handshake and write soon to<br />your loving brother,<br />Vincent"Vincenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18297306807695767580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7364957201792783158.post-82563877794875678952014-05-11T01:34:35.526-07:002014-05-11T01:34:35.526-07:00Indeed
I was thinking earlier about how to respond...Indeed<br />I was thinking earlier about how to respond to this and was rather dreading your response but I needn't have worried. I was going to liken the situation to someone coming into the middle of a conversation and getting the wrong end of the stick, in which case my response was 'ungracious'.<br /><br />A couple of thoughts occur - one is that this exchange does indeed mirror Steve Lawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04939837731535127700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7364957201792783158.post-23914279353932743332014-05-09T10:35:30.731-07:002014-05-09T10:35:30.731-07:00If I recall correctly, you were pissed off in exac...If I recall correctly, you were pissed off in exactly the same way last time. I do allow you this foible. I did in fact read all you wrote, though i might have chosen to skim through some of it. You admitted to a rant, that is, saying exactly what you wanted to say. I gave you my intuitive response, without disguising it into anything else. <br /><br />I don't think we are rubbing along badlyVincenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18297306807695767580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7364957201792783158.post-71855938687680360672014-05-09T10:06:39.756-07:002014-05-09T10:06:39.756-07:00No, this time I'm just pissed off that you had...No, this time I'm just pissed off that you had either not read what I wrote properly or had chosen to ignore it and talked about something else. I think it's bad manners actually to read what someone has taken the trouble to write and just out of 'free will' talk about what you want to talk about. What's the point? I know you like your blog to be rambling and unfocussed but I Steve Lawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04939837731535127700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7364957201792783158.post-54918854291172190562014-05-09T07:42:12.075-07:002014-05-09T07:42:12.075-07:00Thanks for the reminder that we have been here bef...Thanks for the reminder that we have been here before, on precisely the same point, that to you there is a definite point, as defined by you, and if anyone else has a point it is summarily dismissed as out of order, off the agenda, waste of time and so forth.<br /><br />No need to be sorry, as to whether I missed your point or you missed mine. I wrote my comment from freewill & took the risk Vincenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18297306807695767580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7364957201792783158.post-59144862306211298742014-05-09T06:19:24.165-07:002014-05-09T06:19:24.165-07:00What you say here is completely obvious and beside...What you say here is completely obvious and beside the point. These last five blog entries are not about getting published. That's just an example. The whole point of these five entries is to work out precisely why I conflate rejection/dismissal/contempt of what I do with rejection of myself in a more general way. I know rationally it doesn't make sense but it happens and as you can Steve Lawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04939837731535127700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7364957201792783158.post-44378702675813565622014-05-09T05:53:53.799-07:002014-05-09T05:53:53.799-07:00Some aspects of the dilemma you describe are famil...Some aspects of the dilemma you describe are familiar to me and so excite immediate sympathy, I mean the business of trying to publish your work. Publishing in all aspects is run as a market and everyone wants to be paid. Furthermore the supply of novels vastly exceeds the demand, leading to a reluctance of the gatekeepers to spend more than a few seconds to evaluate someone’s life work. That’s Vincenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18297306807695767580noreply@blogger.com