Comments for The Circumflex http://johnbolland.net/johnbollandblog Perspective on writing and the Scottish literature scene from North of the Central Belt Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:30:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Comment on Mad luck by Jeff Skosnik http://johnbolland.net/johnbollandblog/?p=84&cpage=1#comment-6366 Jeff Skosnik Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:30:26 +0000 http://johnbolland.net/johnbollandblog/?p=84#comment-6366 Interesting post, from which I infer you aren't doing much of a corporate globe trotting nature these days. jeff skosnik Interesting post, from which I infer you aren’t doing much of a corporate globe trotting nature these days.
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]]> Comment on StAnZa 2007 – Poetry vs Protean Voices by Ellsworth Mcloud http://johnbolland.net/johnbollandblog/?p=33&cpage=1#comment-6125 Ellsworth Mcloud Wed, 19 May 2010 06:56:16 +0000 http://johnbolland.net/johnbollandblog/?p=33#comment-6125 Amazing page man, I highly like the look and additionally the feel of this important blogging site. You write seriously well, you have to be a aware guy. Will without doubt come back Amazing page man, I highly like the look and additionally the feel of this important blogging site. You write seriously well, you have to be a aware guy. Will without doubt come back

]]> Comment on Book Marx by free magazines on line http://johnbolland.net/johnbollandblog/?p=29&cpage=1#comment-6034 free magazines on line Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:59:26 +0000 http://johnbolland.net/johnbollandblog/?p=29#comment-6034 That was a wonderful read,I await many more post from you. That was a wonderful read,I await many more post from you.

]]> Comment on Piling in on the side of the mad-men by The Beekeeper http://johnbolland.net/johnbollandblog/?p=32&cpage=1#comment-20 The Beekeeper Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:00:53 +0000 http://johnbolland.net/johnbollandblog/?p=32#comment-20 the bees agree .... life is a situationist comedy old chum, welcome to the simulacrum! the bees agree ….

life is a situationist comedy old chum,
welcome to the simulacrum!

]]> Comment on You are old Father William….. by The Beekeeper http://johnbolland.net/johnbollandblog/?p=30&cpage=1#comment-17 The Beekeeper Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:28:45 +0000 http://johnbolland.net/johnbollandblog/?p=30#comment-17 the bees noticed that you have now become a third person ... perhaps the author has died ... long live the author! ... you watch yourself throw tantrums but why concealed? as for coherence, Uncle Ezra could not make it & did not collect his 200M Lira ... the bees have no time for comic-book groupies either, too many graphic endings with window pain ... the bees noticed that you have now become a third person … perhaps the author has died … long live the author! … you watch yourself throw tantrums but why concealed? as for coherence, Uncle Ezra could not make it & did not collect his 200M Lira … the bees have no time for comic-book groupies either, too many graphic endings with window pain …

]]> Comment on Interglacial 1 by The Beekeeper http://johnbolland.net/johnbollandblog/?p=23&cpage=1#comment-16 The Beekeeper Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:11:45 +0000 http://johnbolland.net/johnbollandblog/?p=23#comment-16 Hummmm ... yes, book do indoors, film go outdoors, what I meant ... Icebergs are people too ... humans have calved themselves from nature ... the bees sing misanthropically ...hummmm ... Hummmm … yes, book do indoors, film go outdoors, what I meant … Icebergs are people too … humans have calved themselves from nature … the bees sing misanthropically …hummmm …

]]> Comment on Book Marx by John Bolland http://johnbolland.net/johnbollandblog/?p=29&cpage=1#comment-11 John Bolland Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:09:20 +0000 http://johnbolland.net/johnbollandblog/?p=29#comment-11 The joy is in the process (and there is good stuff out there) but the dosh is in the product - honey is a commodity expropriated by the capitalist beekeeper in and act of a primitive accumulation of apian commons by a protocapitalist asserting ownership over the means of production - What is a hive? A buzz or a bee box? The joy is in the process (and there is good stuff out there) but the dosh is in the product – honey is a commodity expropriated by the capitalist beekeeper in and act of a primitive accumulation of apian commons by a protocapitalist asserting ownership over the means of production – What is a hive? A buzz or a bee box?

]]> Comment on Interglacial 1 by John Bolland http://johnbolland.net/johnbollandblog/?p=23&cpage=1#comment-10 John Bolland Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:04:22 +0000 http://johnbolland.net/johnbollandblog/?p=23#comment-10 Now this disappeared somewhere...into About I think. I sort of disagree with Lodge...which is to say Novels don't HAVE to go anywhere (apart form anything else we were here first!) and I happen to think it is EXACTLY interior decor that novels do well and films don't....film is all surface and dazzle/detail but sensuous interiority/ brittle mind-racing interiority/ space and dust....nah! films always falling over, off balance, stepping out of its own frame. It can't be still in its moment/ has no moment/ turns nothing on or off. And fabulism - fine! Fabulate - the world can speak. I once had a surgeon who explained to me - just as I was going under - that a minor operable condition which I found painful was, in the opinion of some surgeons, a natural condition and should not be treated. Post-op retrospect - so are heart attacks - instances of the natural condition. Icebergs do floating with mass. People do hubris. How come your discourse privileges the ice cube. Do you think they have no imagination of their own and you have to lend them yours? Could this be a m,anifestation of a hive mentality? Now this disappeared somewhere…into About I think.
I sort of disagree with Lodge…which is to say Novels don’t HAVE to go anywhere (apart form anything else we were here first!) and I happen to think it is EXACTLY interior decor that novels do well and films don’t….film is all surface and dazzle/detail but sensuous interiority/ brittle mind-racing interiority/ space and dust….nah! films always falling over, off balance, stepping out of its own frame. It can’t be still in its moment/ has no moment/ turns nothing on or off.
And fabulism – fine! Fabulate – the world can speak. I once had a surgeon who explained to me – just as I was going under – that a minor operable condition which I found painful was, in the opinion of some surgeons, a natural condition and should not be treated. Post-op retrospect – so are heart attacks – instances of the natural condition. Icebergs do floating with mass. People do hubris. How come your discourse privileges the ice cube. Do you think they have no imagination of their own and you have to lend them yours? Could this be a m,anifestation of a hive mentality?

]]> Comment on Book Marx by The Beekeeper http://johnbolland.net/johnbollandblog/?p=29&cpage=1#comment-9 The Beekeeper Mon, 05 Mar 2007 19:57:04 +0000 http://johnbolland.net/johnbollandblog/?p=29#comment-9 the bees and I agree with most of what you say and you say it very well indeed ... probably a lot of published writers have never thought about or concerned themselves with the points you raise ... genre writing generates the possibility of franchise and the franchise makes big bucks and has nothing to do with 'real' writing ... in saying this, the bees think there is still quite good stuff out there, mustn't be too sniffy ... if your name is embossed along the top of the cover that is when the genre becomes you, & you become part of the machinery ... will Rowling come to hate little Harry? ....much better to have ideas that sprout wings that allow you to fly and buzz far above the clank and grind of the machinery ... yes, published authors wear halos not unlike cheesy teatowel depictions of the messiah ... the joy is in the process sing the bees, and if the accident will, so be it ... the bees and I agree with most of what you say and you say it very well indeed … probably a lot of published writers have never thought about or concerned themselves with the points you raise … genre writing generates the possibility of franchise and the franchise makes big bucks and has nothing to do with ‘real’ writing … in saying this, the bees think there is still quite good stuff out there, mustn’t be too sniffy … if your name is embossed along the top of the cover that is when the genre becomes you, & you become part of the machinery … will Rowling come to hate little Harry? ….much better to have ideas that sprout wings that allow you to fly and buzz far above the clank and grind of the machinery … yes, published authors wear halos not unlike cheesy teatowel depictions of the messiah … the joy is in the process sing the bees, and if the accident will, so be it …

]]> Comment on Interglacial 1 by The Beekeeper http://johnbolland.net/johnbollandblog/?p=23&cpage=1#comment-8 The Beekeeper Mon, 05 Mar 2007 19:00:51 +0000 http://johnbolland.net/johnbollandblog/?p=23#comment-8 I think I read a lodge essay once where he said that novels have to go where the film-makers can’t (he was implying fabulism I think) which is becoming harder & harder … but generally they don’t do interior decorating very well … I’ve been tracking down the films of Guillermo del Torro recently (Pan’s Labyrinth the latest) as he tinkers with fabulist ideas … I think he’s Mexican which might explain some of his obsessions … lying around here somewhere are some dusty scribblings of a SS I aimed to write called Interview with an Iceberg …time (or zeitgeist) has caught up with that idea somewhat … it came from a thought I had at a time when everyone and their dog was going to see Titanic … I thought someone should make a film on the same subject only from the iceberg’s point of view … after all, the iceberg was just doing what icebergs do … while humans were trying to prove the unsinkability of their hubris … as for Apocalypse Now … at breakfast I always have some toast drizzled with fresh napalm … must go now, the bees are beginning to hum …!! I think I read a lodge essay once where he said that novels have to go where the film-makers can’t (he was implying fabulism I think) which is becoming harder & harder … but generally they don’t do interior decorating very well … I’ve been tracking down the films of Guillermo del Torro recently (Pan’s Labyrinth the latest) as he tinkers with fabulist ideas … I think he’s Mexican which might explain some of his obsessions … lying around here somewhere are some dusty scribblings of a SS I aimed to write called Interview with an Iceberg …time (or zeitgeist) has caught up with that idea somewhat … it came from a thought I had at a time when everyone and their dog was going to see Titanic … I thought someone should make a film on the same subject only from the iceberg’s point of view … after all, the iceberg was just doing what icebergs do … while humans were trying to prove the unsinkability of their hubris … as for Apocalypse Now … at breakfast I always have some toast drizzled with fresh napalm … must go now, the bees are beginning to hum …!!

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