tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post4323713010722302771..comments2024-03-29T07:54:24.161+00:00Comments on TONE DEAF: It's not Sesame Sreet, you knowRoderick Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-84060945131232840592013-07-28T07:14:44.032+01:002013-07-28T07:14:44.032+01:00Natalie: I am sorry you suffer techno-problems arr...Natalie: I am sorry you suffer techno-problems arriving at Tone Deaf. If it's any comfort, I shall react to your future comments as if you were scattering gold dust on me - gilded by your passage, as it were; smeared with paté de foie gras, sprinkled with Roederer Cristal. Honoured, Privileged. Unable to hold back glutinous flattery.<br /><br />I am glad you have penetrated Tone Deaf's <i>raison d'etre</i>. As my re-written mission statement makes clear, I am here to entertain. This doesn't mean I fight shy of serious subjects, rather that I tend to dress them up in the Fool's cap and bells. Solemnity and earnestness are unforgivable crimes in this neck of the woods.<br /><br />However, you make a serious point. Or I think you do. My novels are different; they are not in any sense comic. However I do have a back-stop. Joe (see next comment) reads them in draft form and makes suggestions. I had created a character called Imogen in Blest Redeemer, a strange innocent abroad in London, up from the West Country and searching for depucelation. Joe said I could get more out of her, that in effect she was comic. And so she now is.<br /><br />Joe: Quite right. Measurement is at the heart of understanding as Lord Kelvin says (you asked me to elaborate on Lord K in Gorgon Times). But such understanding is incomplete and refers only to the physical world. It fitted into this quote as a man vs. woman misunderstanding.<br /><br />I hope you do like Francine, although I am restricted in what I can say about her in these quotes. They are all from one day in her life and are purely descriptive, cannot reveal the plot; this one day is prelude to almost unimaginable horror followed by the rest of her life spent in a part of the world you know well. I foresee arguments when I get there.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-14799645682564252902013-07-27T17:52:41.475+01:002013-07-27T17:52:41.475+01:00Measuring is a topic which bears further discussio...Measuring is a topic which bears further discussion, though not perhaps in Hand Signals. It is one of the most useful and sometimes restricting activities known to mankind. Already I like FrancineAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-27500356955259327332013-07-27T16:24:49.714+01:002013-07-27T16:24:49.714+01:00Your conversation re fridge, giant broccoli and Ra...Your conversation re fridge, giant broccoli and Rameau sounds straight out of Peter Cook/Dudley Moore or Spike Milligan. Love it. Why aren't you writing comedy scenarios instead of serious stuff? Sorry, you *are* writing comedy quite frequently.<br /><br />The trouble with inserting comments here is that I have to remember to switch to Safari from Firefox and then be rejected by your comments supervisor who doesn't like me and makes me repeat everything, robotically, when I prove I'm not a robot.Nataliehttp://www.nataliedarbeloff.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-44798096111737599482013-07-27T07:28:59.482+01:002013-07-27T07:28:59.482+01:00Ellena: Fridge: not to my knowledge. But the final...Ellena: Fridge: not to my knowledge. But the final act did take place in a morgue.<br /><br />Re Francine. Bearing in mind these are snippets and your reactions are likely to be fragmentary, I appreciate any form of comment you can come up with. Genuinely useful, I promise.<br /><br />The Crow: See above comment. I'm pleased you think so; I get so close to her it's difficult for me to be objective. Tell you what, though, I really dislike Martin Ibanez.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-66852228618378286892013-07-26T15:52:20.630+01:002013-07-26T15:52:20.630+01:00You do know the mind and emotions of women.
You do know the mind and emotions of women.<br /><br />The Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04846997590157958766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-38939634962940998612013-07-26T15:28:48.803+01:002013-07-26T15:28:48.803+01:00Did the fridge reappear during Act
III, IV and V?
...Did the fridge reappear during Act<br />III, IV and V?<br />Francine is right.Ellenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14965850008354379369noreply@blogger.com