tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6720858203931120530.post4086180245891355660..comments2023-12-28T16:38:26.304-08:00Comments on ACravan: Begins and Ends (A Gun For Sale)ACravanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6720858203931120530.post-66242192641919115892011-11-06T06:10:39.808-08:002011-11-06T06:10:39.808-08:00Tom: You and Angelica may enjoy these two also. ...Tom: You and Angelica may enjoy these two also. The Literary Gossip one was a really interesting discovery:<br /><br />http://acravan.blogspot.com/2011/04/literary-gossip-january-25-1956.html<br /><br />http://acravan.blogspot.com/2011/08/beautiful-letter-evelyn-waugh-to-ann.html<br /><br />CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6720858203931120530.post-51886803645005843762011-11-06T05:20:28.043-08:002011-11-06T05:20:28.043-08:00Two great writers, of course, but Waugh's comm...Two great writers, of course, but Waugh's comments on Greene perhaps derive from a certain sense of rivalry. <br /><br />Coincidentally, Angelica (who has read the complete works of both writers, over and over), is now re-reading The Heart of the Matter.<br /><br />And the dust jacket comment, from Waugh: <br /><br />"A literary 'event'... [a] profoundly reverent book."<br /><br />GG is at least here being given credit (faint praise?) for his devotional duties.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6720858203931120530.post-10889979022549068312011-11-06T03:57:38.192-08:002011-11-06T03:57:38.192-08:00Tom: I read, without pleasure, the Power and the ...Tom: I read, without pleasure, the Power and the Glory in high school when it was assigned to me. I didn't really pick up on and connect with Greene as author (as opposed to source for screenplays) until I was older and had experienced some of the intense, complex things he expresses so well and now he's an invariable touchstone of emotional truth. Sad, I guess, but true. I recall reading in a book preface somewhere a somewhat slighting remark Evelyn Waugh made about what he regarded as the inferior plainness of Greene's prose, indicating a view that Greene's words operated more as stage directions than what Waugh thought a novelist's writing should do. I don't agree with that at all and continue to be amazed at Greene's empathy and his ability to take a long, deep, harsh but accurate view of the world. We very much want Jane to start with Our Man In Havana and will be meeting with her English teacher to discuss this. It's not on the sanctioned "outside reading list," which seems silly. Good Sunday morning to you and Angelica. CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6720858203931120530.post-69722416231302015312011-11-05T04:48:18.553-07:002011-11-05T04:48:18.553-07:00"But she forgot it herself completely when th..."But she forgot it herself completely when the train drew into London over a great viaduct under which the small, bright shabby streets ran off like the rays of a star with their sweet shops, their Methodist chapels, their messages chalked on the paving stones."<br /><br />No one writes sentences like this one anymore. A great pity.<br /><br />Thanks for dropping by from the Beyond, Graham. See you soon, under the viaduct.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6720858203931120530.post-78503868818065703652011-11-03T02:27:25.546-07:002011-11-03T02:27:25.546-07:00Dropping by was a great pleasure. Thanks very muc...Dropping by was a great pleasure. Thanks very much for your kind words. Please do visit again. I try to keep things varied. LONG day ahead. It's good to receive a nice note from afar to begin it. CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6720858203931120530.post-55208582645174955892011-11-03T02:18:37.302-07:002011-11-03T02:18:37.302-07:00Your pictures blend perfectly with your posts, tru...Your pictures blend perfectly with your posts, truly complimentary. Pleasing to the eye. Thank you for dropping by. Will certainly read more of yours.AfterTimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01314458213637288705noreply@blogger.com