Well, by now, you - one of the eight reading this blog - should have guessed that this is an echo-chamber, not an auditorium. I'm not really trying to engage an audience just now: I'm trying things out; mainly to see how embarrassed I am by my writing when I read it the next day - always a good measure in my opinion. So, the main things I've found: I over-qualify, use too many adjectives. Half my writing is unwriting. Like embryonic development: where cells are shed from a mitten of undifferentiated flesh to define fingers and thumbs. I have forgotten the rules of grammar for speech. Parenthesised clauses feel like smug little asides from a knowing author to a complicit reader (don't you think?) I enjoy writing sentence by sentence, and risk losing the paragraph's meaning. I want to chop out great screeds of fine writing 1 the morning after. But that wouldn't be in the spirit of blogging this stuff. On the other hand, I've cut some real self-indulgent c...
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ReplyDeletehappy ending though
ReplyDeletegood, then. Normal life resumes.
ReplyDeleteat a lower ebb
ReplyDeletenobody can maintain the high points without a monumental crash and burn.
ReplyDeletewell, it's officially over now. DIvorce looms. The shorter one is to be "no longer" in another sense.
ReplyDeleteStill can't come to terms with it (worried about the shortest ones - my boys).
Now the tone of this blog is explained.
The shit in the river was very different today. (next post title)
It's like a death, I think. I hope that you are able to stay near your boys and continue to be an active parent for them. Ah, bah. There aren't the words. . .
ReplyDeleteWell, I have to say, the bits and pieces you've left here are much appreciated.
ReplyDeleteWe're not being vindictive, we're not being fairly unfair.
Thanks.
It's a bits and pieces situation, this internet thing. So strange, sorto of 'talking' to someone so far away yet so immediate. There isn't a prescident (sheva wept, I'll never learn to spell). Just sound that one out. Unless it's spelt correctly, in which case have a good laugh.
ReplyDeleteprecedent, I think you mean, as in "we've had two Bushes in the Whitehouse, that makes the first one Precedent Bush"
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