Here are a few moments of insight and delight I experienced in your rich post.
1. "Such technical elegances are not everything we should want in a writer, but they count . . . " Style and substance--like medium and message--can be symbiotic!
2. "Rundell is the spun gold to their faux taffeta": great image!
3. " . . . she is able to produce juxtapositions and illuminations other writers cannot. " Key insight about what distinguishes her brilliance.
4. "The book I really want her to write would be An Anatomy of Wonders.": This is surely the highest praise possible.
5. Day of Remembrance: I was immediately reminded of the Holocaust Day of Remembrance.
January 27
The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
On this annual day of commemoration, the UN urges every member state to honor the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazism and to develop educational programs to help prevent future genocides.
6. Flt Lt Helen Kingswood's recounting of love and loss was deeply moving.
Thanks much, Henry, for your inventive "juxtapositions and illuminations"!
Henry,
Here are a few moments of insight and delight I experienced in your rich post.
1. "Such technical elegances are not everything we should want in a writer, but they count . . . " Style and substance--like medium and message--can be symbiotic!
2. "Rundell is the spun gold to their faux taffeta": great image!
3. " . . . she is able to produce juxtapositions and illuminations other writers cannot. " Key insight about what distinguishes her brilliance.
4. "The book I really want her to write would be An Anatomy of Wonders.": This is surely the highest praise possible.
5. Day of Remembrance: I was immediately reminded of the Holocaust Day of Remembrance.
January 27
The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
On this annual day of commemoration, the UN urges every member state to honor the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazism and to develop educational programs to help prevent future genocides.
6. Flt Lt Helen Kingswood's recounting of love and loss was deeply moving.
Thanks much, Henry, for your inventive "juxtapositions and illuminations"!
Daniel