tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post4412746568835915043..comments2023-10-11T14:18:03.816+01:00Comments on Works Well: Galsworthy could also have stood cuttingRoderick Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post-4983736752351272092011-06-26T14:28:44.228+01:002011-06-26T14:28:44.228+01:00The Man of Property has grown on me but I think I...The Man of Property has grown on me but I think I'll stick to just the one if the rest are more wordy.Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02381204473168533313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post-46362543742957352402011-06-26T11:52:49.091+01:002011-06-26T11:52:49.091+01:00Lucy: I saw TFS in America where it appeared on th...Lucy: I saw TFS in America where it appeared on the PBS channel - seen as educational. For several days Mrs BB and I have been trying to recall the name of the actress who played Irene and it's just arrived - Nyree Dawn Porter who went on to do precisely nothing in the acting business thereafter. The series of books comprising The Forsyte Saga become more and more prolix (and purple) once you're past the first, Man of Property. Thanks for the tip about FB-Y.<br /><br />M-L: It was Mrs BB who suggested the typewriter be put on display and I am grateful to her for that. Other than a pair of my underpants it is hard to imagine a more intimate object to my existence. It saw particlarly strenuous use during my newspaper days and the E-key (the most used letter in the English alphabet) has been worn away on one side by my pounding fingers. I also wrote (and re-wrote) four unpublished novels on it, took it to the USA where I used it to write hundreds of letters home, yet it still works as it did when my dad bought it for me in 1952. It is however an object permanently now rooted in the past. I write better than I did then and the word processor (with its easy facility for correction) is one of the reasons.<br /><br />RW (zS): My few acquaintances have always been offered the choice: a heartfelt TYPED letter which is readable, or a handwritten one which is not. Passion profits from clarity, I say.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post-46235713509425083102011-06-25T22:52:21.395+01:002011-06-25T22:52:21.395+01:00Call me funny, but I love this "old" stu...Call me funny, but I love this "old" stuff. My Olivetti Lettera got a work-out just this morning as I typed a letter to a dear, dear (yes, she does get two dears) friend of mine who is currently in Iceland. And we had a box radio which sadly did not follow us in the most recent move. But what sound!Rouchswalwehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01393987883437907945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post-62468901302856160552011-06-25T19:21:15.013+01:002011-06-25T19:21:15.013+01:00Interesting that you have your typewriter on displ...Interesting that you have your typewriter on display like a museum piece. Somewhere in the bowels of our crawl space/storage/junk place is an ancient typewriter that daughter says may be a collector's item. We have a huge ancient wood case radio from the late 40's- early 50's which my mother-in-law carried in her own arms all the way from Germany via ship and train to central Canada. Somewhow it ended up in our home after she passed on. It's a monstrosity sitting on an old cabinet TV (not quite as old, heh) in a guest room. I always wonder what the guests think of them both.marja-leenahttp://www.marja-leena-rathje.infonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post-42320383758487068372011-06-25T12:47:03.895+01:002011-06-25T12:47:03.895+01:00Yes, Galsworthy's one of those interesting cas...Yes, Galsworthy's one of those interesting cases of someone who was lionised at one time and is now almost forgotten. Funny really that the period when he had something of a resurgence was probably the time when he would have been most comprehensively ditched, in the 60s, because of the TV version, which I still enjoyed on watching it again a while back, though not the remake of a few years ago which was the most atrocious piece of casting ever.<br /><br />My mum had a treasured set of the novels of Francis Brett-Young, who has also been mercifully forgotten by history.Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.com