tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post4593805097808663947..comments2024-03-20T16:46:13.343-04:00Comments on Marly Youmans / The Palace at 2:00 a.m. / poems, stories, novels: Reads of the momentMarly Youmanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-42176938923956160462017-11-10T08:25:44.572-05:002017-11-10T08:25:44.572-05:00Y'all are too kind. I am too blathery.Y'all are too kind. I am too blathery.Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-62805434524620904982017-11-10T03:21:32.866-05:002017-11-10T03:21:32.866-05:00I agree with Scott.I agree with Scott.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-83744646545998998452017-11-09T17:13:48.301-05:002017-11-09T17:13:48.301-05:00Saint Scott!Saint Scott!Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-45443491865784370752017-11-09T15:16:57.905-05:002017-11-09T15:16:57.905-05:00Certainly it wasn't; I read every word!Certainly it wasn't; I read every word!scott g.f.baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05726743149139510832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-37049090312024567992017-11-09T10:39:22.179-05:002017-11-09T10:39:22.179-05:00That was too long!That was too long!Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-48617503892797205952017-11-09T10:39:09.118-05:002017-11-09T10:39:09.118-05:00In general, I am uninterested in writers' live...In general, I am uninterested in writers' lives, though I do find the lopsided Melville-Hawthorne friendship to be heartbreaking. And I at one time read Woolf and Dickinson letters. And other historically-interesting letters. Read some seventieth-century Massachusetts ones last year... Can't say I've read more than bits of the Amis-Larkin letters. Colorful bits, though!<br /><br />Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-44629807499606103542017-11-09T02:41:24.686-05:002017-11-09T02:41:24.686-05:00VR refuses to read non-fictional material about wr...VR refuses to read non-fictional material about writers, doesn't care to know whether they're fascist, pederast, vegan or underwear-unsympathetic. Since in an average year she reads approx. 230 books (almost all fiction) across a wide spectrum of popularity she could claim she hasn't the time but, no, it's a matter of principle. The works should proclaim the writer, she says. The Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-81857551357650219862017-11-08T14:05:17.036-05:002017-11-08T14:05:17.036-05:00Rebel without a cause... yeah. Agh, I hadn't r...Rebel without a cause... yeah. Agh, I hadn't really considered the state of his underwear. Or synthetics!<br /><br />I must say that I tend to think of Wodehouse as fantasy. Edwardian fantasy, but fantasy.<br /><br />The Amis-Larkin letters have probably colored my thoughts about both as men and as writers.Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-78339243141514986852017-11-08T12:59:38.631-05:002017-11-08T12:59:38.631-05:00Dixon is poor and Wooster is rich: both are the pr...Dixon is poor and Wooster is rich: both are the product of their respective bank balances. Dixon is consumed by class rage, Wooster is hardly aware there is a class system. Both are defined by their eras, the twenties and the early fifties, Wooster being well-fed, Dixon being mal-developed (to the point where most North Americans would have lurched away from him in horror: bad orthodontics, Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-20419333683562711012017-11-07T10:10:39.351-05:002017-11-07T10:10:39.351-05:00Haha, yes! I'm sure it must be many people'...Haha, yes! I'm sure it must be many people's favorite lines in the book, and that many have woken to thoughts of that small, widdling mouse.Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-8995691422719061212017-11-07T09:44:06.949-05:002017-11-07T09:44:06.949-05:00The passage you quote from Amis is delightful, and...The passage you quote from Amis is delightful, and yes, very Wodehousian. "He felt bad" is the perfect dry conclusion to all that hyperbolic suffering.Matt Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15242086064902945677noreply@blogger.com