tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post5699945398706505009..comments2023-10-11T14:18:03.816+01:00Comments on Works Well: BB en route to TrierRoderick Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post-74747333422925949012011-01-26T22:59:32.900+00:002011-01-26T22:59:32.900+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.Rouchswalwehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01393987883437907945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post-6424603649496799722011-01-26T22:59:21.057+00:002011-01-26T22:59:21.057+00:00Oh my, last month a good friend told me to start w...Oh my, last month a good friend told me to start writing short stories. I told her she was full of beans. BB!Rouchswalwehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01393987883437907945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post-12566050326829710532011-01-25T13:06:24.019+00:002011-01-25T13:06:24.019+00:00Julia: Quite right; my earlier photo of the cap tu...Julia: Quite right; my earlier photo of the cap turned it into a black blob, lacking in detail. As to the other matter, you aren't allowing for the passage of time. Away from Prague, I'm withering.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post-70830013808347777142011-01-25T13:01:24.206+00:002011-01-25T13:01:24.206+00:00M-L: You should tease me as I tease you. A truly s...M-L: You should tease me as I tease you. A truly sharp eye would have noticed that the dictionary is published by Penguin, not exactly top rank up there with Webster, Oxford and Collins. Why, you might have asked, was I making do with second-best given my aspirations to becoming an over-pretentious, Proust-spoutiing, failure-damning, neurosis-ridden intellectual? Well, there is a reason but you'll have to wait until I post it.<br /><br />Lucy: It was, I think, Robert Benchley who said there are certain propositions in life one is immediately disinclined to pursue. In his case it was fur-bearing trout. In my case it's a chocolate cap. The bedside lamp which I use to illuminate my computer keyboard (going blind as well as deaf) must be equipped with one of those bulbs which adds a peach-like seductive cast to a boudoir. No, I don't know why I bought it.<br /><br />Plutarch: I am just back from Waitrose (50 mile round trip) where I wore my cap and out-stared anyone who glanced at me. Among the things we bought were a haggis and a Teisin Lap.<br /><br />RW (zS): Look, this is important. Pour all your beer down the drain, condemn yourself to a diet of stale Mother's Pride and dismiss all your mates. It's time you entered a world that's ready to welcome you with open arms: fiction writing. I am touched by your baroque inventions and would love to know we were both slaving away in tandem.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post-62844247546907690692011-01-25T12:41:11.387+00:002011-01-25T12:41:11.387+00:00Nice hat, and well photographed - it's quite h...Nice hat, and well photographed - it's quite hard to photograph black anything so that the detail is viewable (dogs, coats, etc). <br /><br />One small rebuttal - I would be able to pick your face from a lineup any day!Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02381204473168533313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post-65039690701848409202011-01-25T01:14:22.074+00:002011-01-25T01:14:22.074+00:00Vielen Dank, BB! I cannot help but wonder if the b...Vielen Dank, BB! I cannot help but wonder if the braid-on-the-cap tradition carried over the Germanic tradition of the wife to cut off a braid (<i>ein Zopf</i>) of her hair to present to her husband before he set off on a journey. The German verb <i>zupfen</i>, meaning to pull, could have meant that she was pulling him back home at the end of his journey. Writing a novel can be seen as embarking on a journey, so the braids on your cap (from Mrs. BB) are quite important. Braids are woven, as a the writer weaves the story. The tape is simple, yet beautiful. And the leaves around the brim touch on ... promise, growth, creation.Rouchswalwehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01393987883437907945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post-82169276053883554122011-01-24T16:08:58.287+00:002011-01-24T16:08:58.287+00:00Wearing the hat as you write the novel is good ide...Wearing the hat as you write the novel is good idea. Perhaps it will introduce a benign German note into the already multi-lingual dialogue. It will almost certainly give you confidence as your steer the plot beside the banks of your experience.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post-70001794944847296722011-01-24T14:19:30.732+00:002011-01-24T14:19:30.732+00:00It looks chocolate brown there, but I imagine it&#...It looks chocolate brown there, but I imagine it's black. Very swish anyway.Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post-71356543132272996162011-01-23T18:21:18.869+00:002011-01-23T18:21:18.869+00:00Lovely detailing on that hat! And I imagine much o...Lovely detailing on that hat! And I imagine much of the contents beneath to be well studied and memorized by the head that holds the hat! A writer's prized possession.marja-leenahttp://www.marja-leena-rathje.infonoreply@blogger.com