tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4909166734000323323.post8319026258784256783..comments2022-01-21T18:03:18.183-08:00Comments on THE CHAGALL POSITION: Return to the ChateauEdmond Caldwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02651618912907453630noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4909166734000323323.post-66650020949655179902008-11-29T11:50:00.000-08:002008-11-29T11:50:00.000-08:00Thanks for the kind words, Augustine. I had a good...Thanks for the kind words, Augustine. I had a good time writing it. I’m afraid I don’t spend a lot of time reading online fiction – your blog is an exception – and I’m not sure why, maybe just my experience of the shite-to-notshite ratio, plus the fact that in my fiction-reading I’m usually “on the scent” of this or that particular author or vague intuition about writing or whatever it is that leads me from one book to the next. Oh, and I read so few short stories compared to novels, that’s another factor . . .Edmond Caldwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02651618912907453630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4909166734000323323.post-72151652304453527972008-11-28T04:41:00.000-08:002008-11-28T04:41:00.000-08:00You could make a film of this passage-within-the-p...You could make a film of this passage-within-the-passage alone:<BR/><BR/>"To make his meaning perfectly clear he supplemented his speech with gestures, indicating first himself, then making walking fingers in the air, then pointing to the nearest house, then making a waving motion as if to erase the house and bringing his hands together and apart as if opening a book, and finally lifting and lowering his fist in the air to suggest flogging. Yet the French person only continued to lift his great Gallic nose skyward by worrisome increments as if sampling the air in order to determine if there might be an Arab on the tarmac, or else he was farsighted and had to rear back his head in order to bring the importuning questioner’s nose into focus in order to determine if it was a nose belonging to an Arab. And so the questioner found himself steadily lowering his chin, dipping his chin downwards in increments in the hope of foreshortening his nose in the French person’s perspective, the French person lifted his nose while the questioner dipped his chin until at last it was difficult for him to question let alone breathe, with his chin tucked into his breastbone his last question came out in a wheeze while the French person’s nose had positively taken off and now soared like the Concorde over the Pays de France." <BR/><BR/>Luvly stuff! It does its part to help in correcting somewhat the 1000/1 imbalance of decent criticism online versus decent fiction online (whereas the ratio of shite critique to shite fiction is in healthy balance, of course).A. Ominoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13807400943709124236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4909166734000323323.post-69099858290413784682008-11-23T18:36:00.000-08:002008-11-23T18:36:00.000-08:00The MS of the whole novel is at a couple of contes...The MS of the whole novel is at a couple of contests, plus I still harbor foolish hopes of getting the chapter published somewhere separately. This is just a teaser (or groaner, or whatever).Edmond Caldwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02651618912907453630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4909166734000323323.post-50272153168785184882008-11-21T17:09:00.000-08:002008-11-21T17:09:00.000-08:00Where's the rest of this, good fellow?Where's the rest of this, good fellow?A. Ominoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13807400943709124236noreply@blogger.com