tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19744635.post6912368668915701122..comments2023-09-17T18:51:11.693+12:00Comments on Eyelight: The Infinite Project -- "'The Personal', more or less' including letters, diaries, journals etcRichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10272507198753290435noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19744635.post-90039000381079476782023-09-17T18:51:11.693+12:002023-09-17T18:51:11.693+12:00Thank you, Hasnain.Thank you, Hasnain.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10272507198753290435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19744635.post-23020953210143932422023-08-30T19:19:48.903+12:002023-08-30T19:19:48.903+12:00Very niceVery niceHasnainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16117580161234080398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19744635.post-11174079143138619352021-01-12T19:56:18.918+13:002021-01-12T19:56:18.918+13:00Richard. Excellent. Indeed. RTRichard. Excellent. Indeed. RTRichardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10272507198753290435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19744635.post-14061568058505651632020-09-17T22:23:31.936+12:002020-09-17T22:23:31.936+12:00Richard, I will email, in the future.Richard, I will email, in the future.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10272507198753290435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19744635.post-54882471026818555182020-06-22T17:39:44.515+12:002020-06-22T17:39:44.515+12:00all great writers you mention. kipling's '...all great writers you mention. kipling's 'the man who would be king' was made into an excellent movie starring sean connery and michael caine and directed by john huston. i was introduced to that flick in a fiction into film class when i was ambling about at university. <br /><br />if i might introduce you to another contemporary short story writer that recently passed away, thom jones, who published three collections. he is a swaggeringly tough yet intimate writer that can reference schopenauer and boxing in the same paragraph. <br /><br />you mention 'the quiet earth'. i am haunted by that movie. beautiful and spooky. i've not read the source novel. and i haven't seen the flick in many years. but there was a time when i studied that movie as if it were holy writ. <br /><br />i love schuyler both as a poet and a prose writer. his diary is a brilliant and unique document by a sentient deeply feeling soul.<br /><br />your heritage is utterly fascinating. my own is just as complicated. my last name is common as dirt in these parts of the world and yet how i came to own it is part of a mystery deep in time and family lore. <br /><br />yep, we are doing well. abiding social distancing and wearing our masks. that sort of thing. hit me up with an email if you want to continue this conversation. <br /><br />from one richard to another richard, peace and love!richard lopezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02331807433806381883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19744635.post-37260669102706435652020-06-18T19:11:23.866+12:002020-06-18T19:11:23.866+12:00It all started when I was looking for a letter wri...It all started when I was looking for a letter written by my father when he writes about the loneliness of men throughout the world (to my mother before he was married he was in an ammunition company in NZ as can be seen here). But this led me to start looking through letters, and the history of Banaba (Ocean Island) where my grandfather worked. He was from England (all my relatives are English, Millers on one side and Grays and Taylors although we are not sure the derivation of my father's father as they fell out and not much: but I think he might have had a Jewish or Eastern European ancestor, not sure, he changed his name...But in anycase the grandfather that worked on Ocean Island became part really of the real tragedy of the Pacific, the slow destruction of those Islands in various ways by all the colonial powers. This continues...But this isn't in this quite so much. There is some. But I like the mix, including stuff from a book of letters, hence the ones from Helen Keller etc....<br /><br />I hope all is well with you. I am getting on but still o.k. -- touch wood! or knock on wood!....Hope you keep well also. <br /><br />I'll try to see that movie. I think that his story about the radio that sent messages around the appartment was made into a movie. I believe some of Joyce Carol Oates's stories were made into movies. She is another short story writer I like. Then there is NZ's Craig Harrison whose book and film 'The Quiet Earth' is very good, one of the best things.<br /><br />All the best,<br /><br />Richard.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10272507198753290435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19744635.post-42727343241921569502020-06-18T19:11:13.126+12:002020-06-18T19:11:13.126+12:00Hi Richard. That's o.k. I commented on your po...Hi Richard. That's o.k. I commented on your post. At one stage I myself was missing posts as I forgot I had moderation turned on. Good to hear from you! I knew 'The Swimmer' was a movie. Strange. I do like movies but for me reading and writing is the main thing. I don't even listen to music very much, never really have. And mostly even as teenager it was classical or contemp. music but my Blog isn't about exactly what I like. It is in some cases. Cheever certainly I think is, for me, one of the really great short story writers. I've been looking at some US writers of stories also got some contemp US stuff or old contemp. I decided to get a copy of my own of Ed Dorn's 'Gunslinger' and also as I had read a book (old) called 'The Art of the Real' by Homburger I think his name is, I was reminded of Reznikoff, so I got his 'Testament'. I like the idea of him and I also Kenneth Goldsmith and others doing similar things. I do watch the odd movie. I try to get the 'art' movies, so am thinking of lashing out to get movies for free (so far have been able to get them from the library). YouTube have clamped down. But there are some amazing movies. I agree. Here's one that is an Australian one I knew as I had the writer's books: 'Breath' based on a book by Tim Winton. In my opinion the movie is a little better than the book (it is almost a case where they are 'the same thing' -- mostly they aren't but in this case they are). But I saw (or heard) also Chris Carter in a really strange long movie which is a kind of prose poem documentary that ranges around the world. Also some of the interesting Italian movie makers. But to zero in I need to join something or buy movies online I think and get a player that covers all zones. I should catch up with movies. By chance I once saw a film by Herzog about the loss of the way to make ruby glass which was stranger than 'Wrath of God' (which is good). I took notes from the expressions and made a kind of poem from it. In it, Herzog, it said in a spiel about it, had hypnotized his actors! Whether that is true the film was quite fascinating. <br /><br />On here I was also trying to get letters by ordinary people. I am still trying to find those. Also I need to put more images up. One letter seems a bit unfair from a cumudgeonly writer to poor old Anthony Burgess who did or wrote 'A Clockwork Orange' ...I feel guilty as I haven't read anything by Burgess except a book he wrote about Joyce, and a book about books that talks e.g about say 'The Aerodrome' by Rex Warner. <br /><br />Strangely, of recent short stories I have read the best included: three by Eudora Welty, 'The Man Who Would Be King' by Kipling (!) (he is better than he is considered e.g. he praised US actions against Spain and the Phillipines but it seems that Mark Twain spoke out against those but Kipling we forget also wrote some, I say some, good things...he had an unfortunte life (in the early part) I believe); 'The Machine Stops' by E. M. Forster, and a story by H. E. Bates. Bates might seem unlikely but ''The Cruise of "The Breadwinner"' is great. I also like Hemmingway's stories, and Conrad's as well as Lawrence, as well as Gogol and many others. Letters are interesting also and journals. Came across Herve Guibert completely by chance. I was immediately interested in the way he wrote. But as I like James Schuyler as a poet of course, and he mentioned Gide's Journal I was going to include things by him. But I made a project to read most if not 'everything' by Woolf. Hence her letters etc. My parents letters.<br /><br />Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10272507198753290435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19744635.post-47759650614737020392020-06-18T18:28:44.463+12:002020-06-18T18:28:44.463+12:00hi richard: i'm sad to admit i haven't see...hi richard: i'm sad to admit i haven't seen this most recent post until tonight, middle of june. funny that you write about john cheever & use some of his journals because the movie version of cheever's story THE SWIMMER, starring burt lancaster just started on TV. i was thinking how much i enjoyed reading cheever when i was a lad. he was a great talent. <br /><br />hope you & your family are well in these very odd days!richard lopezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02331807433806381883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19744635.post-41721253461031846302020-05-25T00:33:55.000+12:002020-05-25T00:33:55.000+12:00This is in a draft form really. I still have some ...This is in a draft form really. I still have some photographs to add. It is nearly -- in a sense the "finish" of what I want to do. The rest will be on my 'Dewey Decimal Project' which is allied and I will then do some reviews and memoirs and so on, on my other Blog. But the Inf. Project will continue and obviously in a theoretical sense it is infinite as it 'involves or implies everything'. It is simple on one level -- it is about everything! But in theory also it is meant to be a kind of 'Death of the Author' thing. The other thing is that the 'perfect' or 'great writing' etc or say 'winning competitions' or 'being famous' or a 'star' are for me alien to it. It is for everyone despite what might seem (on one level) its apparent 'difficulty' but by and large it is not so. The writing using many fonts etc I urge people to scroll through and the images they should 'read'. I will write elsewhere (again) a kind of summing up of what I have done here and how the 'What I have been reading' and other projects link to it...Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10272507198753290435noreply@blogger.com