tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post2598643288077679070..comments2024-03-28T07:13:10.797+00:00Comments on TONE DEAF: Competing with GaryRoderick Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-74759500077263794352014-03-28T15:56:24.812+00:002014-03-28T15:56:24.812+00:00Sorry it's hard, Robbie. Just write from your ...Sorry it's hard, Robbie. Just write from your heart and then cut a chunk out, I guess! Never had to do this particular job, yet, and I don't relish the thought of it. Whatever you say and however you say it will be remembered for its sincerity, so don't worry about it too much. The moment will take care of itself.Bethhttp://www.cassandrapages.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-54126121687789619592014-03-23T07:56:08.647+00:002014-03-23T07:56:08.647+00:00Lucy: No doubt you were, at the time, appalled by ...Lucy: No doubt you were, at the time, appalled by my bulk.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-59180791565262865432014-03-23T07:54:55.943+00:002014-03-23T07:54:55.943+00:00Crow: In fact I posited an impossible situation. J...Crow: In fact I posited an impossible situation. Joe (even his ghost) could no more sit around while I put together a tribute to him than I could if the roles were reversed. However Joe's ghost has a function here, the opposite of that a bouncer - the aim being to drag people in rather than kick them out. The point about cutting I make is valid and I appreciate your recognition of this.<br /><br />I envisage my own tombstone: Finally, the perfect cut.<br /><br />MikeM: The point's debatable. Certainly verse is more compact, uses up fewer words. But because of its compactness it needs space (ie, gaps in time) in order to express itself when read aloud. I can gabble my eight-minutes' worth and the general sense (assuming there is any) will be imparted. Gabbled verse may be incoherent.<br /><br />In fact I won't be the only one giving tongue. Joe's brother has found a very good English translation of a poem in Spanish Joe particularly liked (Joe spoke Spanish) and that may well provide the beauty that is beyond me.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-50268794174113965142014-03-23T07:43:29.384+00:002014-03-23T07:43:29.384+00:00I don't remember you having a lightish, whinin...I don't remember you having a lightish, whining voice.Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-54388153100721120232014-03-22T20:08:07.195+00:002014-03-22T20:08:07.195+00:00 A 20 minute service? Perhaps you should go with v... A 20 minute service? Perhaps you should go with verse.mike Mnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-53077655033326238662014-03-22T18:51:07.057+00:002014-03-22T18:51:07.057+00:00I've been reading Ray Bradbury's "Zen...I've been reading Ray Bradbury's "Zen in the Art of Writing," a good book for me to read.<br /><br />What you've written here explains and illustrates the need for writing well, editing even better, than anything else I've ever read. Well, yours and Bradbury's lessons.<br /><br />Joe would be pleased, I think, based on what you and he have written in your blogs since I started following you both. What a wonderful friendship the two of you have shared. The Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04846997590157958766noreply@blogger.com