tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post3839379126263769096..comments2024-03-20T16:46:13.343-04:00Comments on Marly Youmans / The Palace at 2:00 a.m. / poems, stories, novels: Idle thoughts on the road--Marly Youmanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-54382926553794721202012-12-08T20:56:17.680-05:002012-12-08T20:56:17.680-05:00Just back from Atlanta (where I saw Robin!) and in...Just back from Atlanta (where I saw Robin!) and in Cullowhee...<br /><br />Dale, <br /><br />Gormenghast was a teen read for me also--my librarian mother gave me a copy. I read parts of it again a few years ago... I love Mervyn Peake's illustrations and drawings.<br /><br />Paul,<br /><br />Those two comments feel rather contradictory... Making it up as you go along vs. working out of an marlynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-87392804639699022602012-12-07T17:01:21.660-05:002012-12-07T17:01:21.660-05:00Marly - maybe that's it. I mean... he felt t...Marly - maybe that's it. I mean... he felt the need to back-track and make notes about the history he created and make sense of it?<br />History is full of the unexplained; the inconsistent; the unknown and unknowable.<br />I just didn't find all that in Tolkien's work. <br />Mind you, I should probably give it another reading. It's been a long time!<br /><br />The movie did Paul Digbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13872829068371700917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-7251408214954231572012-12-07T15:42:28.971-05:002012-12-07T15:42:28.971-05:00Marly, I suspect an on-purpose live storytelling s...Marly, I suspect an on-purpose live storytelling style voice lends to some of the meandering, unplanned feeling, but I don't actually know :)Robinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08726479896006514225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-81853848597369123132012-12-07T13:38:55.463-05:002012-12-07T13:38:55.463-05:00I don't know if I could read Peake any more. L...I don't know if I could read Peake any more. Loved him when I was a teenager, but back then his Ayn-Rand-on-acid, impudent "I owe nothin' to nobody!" stance was kind of adorable. Now that it's the official motto of the US House of Representatives I feel a bit different about it.Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14523194846272870013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-61364512026405323912012-12-07T11:41:16.391-05:002012-12-07T11:41:16.391-05:00P. S. I don't think there's anybody less m...P. S. I don't think there's anybody less making-it-up-as-I-go than Tolkien. He spent an enormous amount of time on the thing and invented a gi-normous back story history, languages, etc. I don't doubt that you have that sensation, but I wonder what it is, precisely... Would be interesting to nail down why it feels that way.<br /><br />As Auden says, you'll love it or not like it Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-13129274529253775372012-12-07T11:29:59.410-05:002012-12-07T11:29:59.410-05:00Paul,
Oh, I dearly loved Gormenghast!
Robin,
Am...Paul,<br /><br />Oh, I dearly loved Gormenghast!<br /><br />Robin,<br /><br />Am going to try and text you in a few minutes, and after that I zoom off...Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-28050945080719286952012-12-07T11:10:48.122-05:002012-12-07T11:10:48.122-05:00Robin - Give me Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast any...Robin - Give me Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast any day!<br /><br />Marly - trek well!Paul Digbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13872829068371700917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-16416131904211203392012-12-07T10:20:19.545-05:002012-12-07T10:20:19.545-05:00I tried to get rid of my accent too, for the same ...I tried to get rid of my accent too, for the same reason, but mine comes through here and there to some people in some places. And Paul, I agree about Tolkien. I've wished the same, like I'm supposed to enjoy it, the way others seem to. But, alas :)<br /><br />See you soon, Marly! Hopefully!Robinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08726479896006514225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-52013348846229007132012-12-07T10:14:44.112-05:002012-12-07T10:14:44.112-05:00As W. H. Auden said in his review, one will love h...As W. H. Auden said in his review, one will love him or not! (Auden did.)<br /><br />Some people hear mine still. It evidently comes out on the phone and when I am a bit intense...<br /><br />By! Off to Atlanta--Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-64682242245851754022012-12-07T10:11:53.500-05:002012-12-07T10:11:53.500-05:00i wish I could enjoy Tolkien more. I do not mind ...i wish I could enjoy Tolkien more. I do not mind the slow pace of his delivery at all, but I always detect a 'making up as I go along' that muddies the whole thing up for me. <br />Oh well...<br /><br />In the UK it was once the northern accents there that were once deemed 'uneducated'. Quite silly really.<br />I like southern accents here!Paul Digbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13872829068371700917noreply@blogger.com