tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post1478185000845194446..comments2024-03-20T16:46:13.343-04:00Comments on Marly Youmans / The Palace at 2:00 a.m. / poems, stories, novels: Val / OrsonMarly Youmanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-65900413783221630632007-09-23T16:23:00.000-04:002007-09-23T16:23:00.000-04:00have just put in my order and written a cheque to ...have just put in my order and written a cheque to post, it was nice to be able to pay so easily in sterling, I hope there are still some left!<BR/>When I was a little bitty thing I had a comic called 'Treasure'. It was a bit precious and girly for my tastes but one thing I loved was a picture serialisation of the story of Valentine and Orson. Later it was rather conflated in my mind with Enkidu Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-61189549962485510172007-09-19T13:53:00.000-04:002007-09-19T13:53:00.000-04:00If that opinion is disinformation, I shall do my b...If that opinion is disinformation, I shall do my best to spread it--perhaps that will keep your garden from being trampled. I can't quite figure what idea would keep the tourists from flooding the village here. But it would be nice to have a bit fewer.<BR/><BR/>Off again--Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-68655876645116535922007-09-19T13:49:00.000-04:002007-09-19T13:49:00.000-04:00Yes, wellwe used to enjoy our once-quiet corner of...Yes, well<BR/>we used to enjoy our once-quiet corner of NJ because most people held the very same opinion. And...i almost always go south via PA, avoiding the thruway and parkway all together.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-45855251759682786022007-09-19T11:59:00.000-04:002007-09-19T11:59:00.000-04:00I know perfectly well why people live in New Jerse...I know perfectly well why people live in New Jersey, and it is because they took the wrong ramp on the freeway and never found their way out of the state again! How I have managed to repeatedly escape the place (particularly Newark), I do not know. <BR/><BR/>All that was very interesting. Deserts are fascinating--my mother recently went on an Elderhostel trip, "The Desert in Bloom"--but I don't Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-15879011244804900902007-09-19T11:40:00.000-04:002007-09-19T11:40:00.000-04:00Ain't that the truth!i grew up in the desert South...Ain't <I>that</I> the truth!<BR/>i grew up in the desert Southwest and<BR/>i'm always struck speechless when someone who did not grow up where i did calls the place beautiful, since every time i visit i'm overwhelmed with the realization that it looks and feels to me even more desolate than i remember--apart from two hours every morning and two hours every evening--before and after the intense, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-61926527080759672102007-09-19T11:01:00.000-04:002007-09-19T11:01:00.000-04:00Ah, well, things always seem more interesting from...Ah, well, things always seem more interesting from a more distant point of view, don't they? Perhaps that's one reason to write stories.<BR/><BR/>Yes, I must get my heat-and-accent-and-food fix once a year. I go home and gain seven pounds, and then have to come home and race it off again. My deep-South roots mean that I like a lot of things to eat that you just don't get often, even in the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-62757826799463954302007-09-19T09:16:00.000-04:002007-09-19T09:16:00.000-04:00what a rich and varied experience!Although i'm not...what a rich and varied experience!<BR/>Although i'm not forgetting that one of those places (Delaware?) tried to kill your southern voice... <BR/>Heavy Sigh.<BR/>But here you are! And, you take your kids with you back to the South, i imagine annually at least.<BR/><BR/>mmmm, sounds very intriguing: "The Salamander Fire"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-74488931706251733192007-09-18T11:57:00.000-04:002007-09-18T11:57:00.000-04:00Not yet! Well, that's not true. My mother has alre...Not yet! Well, that's not true. My mother has already reported a cold day, although a cold day there is considered a good one here. <BR/><BR/>Yes, though I didn't move to Cullowhee until I was 13, at the start of 9th grade. I've spent at least a few weeks there every year since. Before that I lived in Aiken, South Carolina and Gramercy, Louisiana (loved, loved the place and my neighbors, and Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-35637079490598031622007-09-18T11:26:00.000-04:002007-09-18T11:26:00.000-04:00i confess that i dialed up the thermostat for abou...i confess that i dialed up the thermostat for about half an hour, just to take the chill off this old drafty place. Today has dawned sunny again and the thermometer is already much closer to 70. While i love the change of seasons, i'm crossing my fingers that we get a long, gentle autumn and that the true cold waits until December, or maybe Thanksgiving, when it seems a chill fits the day for Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-9027873207716557562007-09-16T21:35:00.000-04:002007-09-16T21:35:00.000-04:00Halloo, Clare--That was sweet of you! I am glad to...Halloo, Clare--<BR/>That was sweet of you! I am glad to be up-to-date in the Dudmania Library.Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-44514326858474077532007-09-16T15:14:00.000-04:002007-09-16T15:14:00.000-04:00Congratulations Marly! I just ordered myself a co...Congratulations Marly! <BR/>I just ordered myself a copy too...looking forward to this and agree with Zephyr...it is quite easy though I found it easier to have a few windows open at the same time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-83373570784921145762007-09-16T12:19:00.000-04:002007-09-16T12:19:00.000-04:00zephyr,Yes, my knees are knocking and I was tempte...zephyr,<BR/><BR/>Yes, my knees are knocking and I was tempted to turn on the newly-refurbished furnace. But refrained. My nose is cold, and I'm going to go drink tea to warm up.<BR/><BR/>Susanna,<BR/><BR/>You are hired as my personal fortune-teller!<BR/><BR/>b. q.,<BR/><BR/>I'm glad that you're feeling better and no doubt drawing more.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-75950294239052259332007-09-16T09:59:00.000-04:002007-09-16T09:59:00.000-04:00Wow you have been a busy lady!Congratulations on e...Wow you have been a busy lady!<BR/><BR/>Congratulations on everything. I am again up and around after a sinus infection relapse, so I shall be visiting this blog more.blog queenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17229423128584570391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-79371978425173499932007-09-15T23:14:00.000-04:002007-09-15T23:14:00.000-04:00this is wonderful that you have so much coming out...this is wonderful that you have so much coming out this year. Soon you will be on book tours, meeting all the people digginf on your books and listening to lectures. Maybe you will get to stay in a confrence center an all. <BR/><BR/>How cool is that.Susannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04419802372495554966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-82287202778759633922007-09-15T12:38:00.000-04:002007-09-15T12:38:00.000-04:00too soon the chill cometh?The cold air that swept ...too soon the chill cometh?<BR/>The cold air that swept over you arrived here today. <BR/><BR/>You made me laugh, by the way:<BR/>Nervous Nelly Dinosaur...sounds like some one who simply <I>must</I> audition for a spot on Sesame Street.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-70111721683650783232007-09-15T11:55:00.000-04:002007-09-15T11:55:00.000-04:00Oh, I forgot about the sculptor. It was Albert Kec...Oh, I forgot about the sculptor. It was Albert Keck, who has taken on the job of tax assessor in the wake of a botched job. Evidently he is also a sculptor.<BR/><BR/>He is the son of the well-known art restorer, Caroline Keck. She lives around the corner from me, and I hear interesting things about her but have never met her. I believe she is 99 now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-31617112618769287122007-09-15T11:49:00.000-04:002007-09-15T11:49:00.000-04:00Hi Amanda--Twins, of course! Near and dear a topic...Hi Amanda--<BR/><BR/>Twins, of course! Near and dear a topic. <BR/><BR/>No, I don't know about the cover artist as yet; I haven't known them for long. They asked for the novella, and I love to be asked. In the past year Nick and Pete also have asked me for stories for the magazine, as well as for several anthologies they're editing for U. S. houses. <BR/><BR/>Solicitations for a piece of writing Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-68394978042706568732007-09-14T20:36:00.000-04:002007-09-14T20:36:00.000-04:00Twins and free international shipping - incentive ...Twins and free international shipping - incentive enough for me. Do you know your cover artist yet? And what is this of a tax-assessor-sculptor-man?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-83391435658586386792007-09-14T15:55:00.000-04:002007-09-14T15:55:00.000-04:00No, I wrote it well before that book came out but ...No, I wrote it well before that book came out but hadn't done anything with it till P. S. asked for a novella. In fact, I had to look it up to see what you were talking about. But I did read about the trees, plus one book by a tree sitter.<BR/><BR/>Well, it is fall--I think it started today, judging by the air and the garden--so a zephyr has every right to get a bit gusty.<BR/><BR/>The tax Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-12144856103803529272007-09-14T15:04:00.000-04:002007-09-14T15:04:00.000-04:00ah wellyou know how it isevery now and then we zep...ah well<BR/>you know how it is<BR/>every now and then we zephyrs<BR/>get a little wound up and gusty<BR/>over the littlest things<BR/><BR/>by the way, have you read or did you hear the author of The Wild Trees interviewed on NPR?<BR/>Were they (those remarkable redwoods discussed in the book) by any chance part of the inspiration for living up there in those remarkable trees?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-41152495109267539202007-09-14T13:26:00.000-04:002007-09-14T13:26:00.000-04:00from Z to AA Nervous Nelly dinosaur?I prefer to th...from Z to A<BR/><BR/>A Nervous Nelly dinosaur?<BR/><BR/>I prefer to think of you as a garden zephyr!<BR/><BR/>Redwoods are fantastical creatures; it was fun to imagine living in one.Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-84286955233263024222007-09-14T12:06:00.000-04:002007-09-14T12:06:00.000-04:00I hope there will be more reminders closer to publ...I hope there will be more reminders closer to publication date, I most certainly will not be living in the same place at the time of publication. But I am very much interested... not only because redwoods are important creatures to me, but because I know the author (a little bit), too.anniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08324828987699178581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-57221096218127186272007-09-14T08:30:00.000-04:002007-09-14T08:30:00.000-04:00Hey Marly,Just want you and your other fans to kno...Hey Marly,<BR/>Just want you and your other fans to know that it's super easy to order from the publisher...they even let us use Paypal which i appreciate, being the Nervous Nelly i still am about online shopping (dinosaur that i am). i love it that they gave us this opportunity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-66264748572014252002007-09-13T12:00:00.000-04:002007-09-13T12:00:00.000-04:00How exciting! i will zip off and order my copy rig...How exciting! i will zip off and order my copy right away.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com