tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post264845240840579691..comments2024-03-18T17:05:21.126+00:00Comments on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: Dirt Music and Solitude - Dianne HofmeyrUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-59145017583349888672011-03-29T01:00:22.754+01:002011-03-29T01:00:22.754+01:00I'm with you, Dianne, about the hope and, Adel...I'm with you, Dianne, about the hope and, Adele, about the plot thing. Riders [The Riders?] is the one Winton book I really couldn't get on with, but the rest I find gritty and elevating in equal measure. I love some of his short stories and Cloudstreet's simply wonderful, especially if read out loud and savoured word by word.<br /><br />Strangely, when I read the start of Cloudstreet, I knew exactly how it was going to end because I'd done a similar thing in my novel 'Telling the Sea'. I'd been writing for a different age group and out of a different culture, but trying to do the same thing. It's weird, isn't it, when writing works like that? Does that ever happen to you?Pauline Fiskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11826696982301252524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-84666591713895515062011-02-26T19:23:52.356+00:002011-02-26T19:23:52.356+00:00love that one Penny! Its actually a symbol of the ...love that one Penny! Its actually a symbol of the wobbly body that sadly needs a more disciplined lifestyle! This one is pretty innocuous... nothing like the deadly Box Jellyfish of Australia. And comforting to know someone as adept as you, searches for plot too Adele!!!Dianne Hofmeyrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222157214605257030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-47630851532177413572011-02-26T18:20:43.809+00:002011-02-26T18:20:43.809+00:00Beautiful pictures as ever, though not sure if the...Beautiful pictures as ever, though not sure if the huge jellyfish (ugh! panicky shiver!)is there as a symbol of the wobbly mind trying to create the missing plot?Penny Dolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16386668303428008498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-76417717337083337192011-02-26T16:49:00.995+00:002011-02-26T16:49:00.995+00:00Superb photos and gosh, I do empathise about the n...Superb photos and gosh, I do empathise about the needing a plot thing! I often have everything in place but no ACTUAL STORY!! Let's hope both of us scrabbling about in our respective brains will eventually produce something...we must live in hope!adelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15826710558292792068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-91106811282242766232011-02-26T15:33:19.932+00:002011-02-26T15:33:19.932+00:00Lovely photos, beautiful words. You make me long f...Lovely photos, beautiful words. You make me long for the sea!Rosalie Warrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10790708661647164052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-51035599920122137582011-02-26T14:22:13.773+00:002011-02-26T14:22:13.773+00:00Cat... interesting. Maybe its to do with reading a...Cat... interesting. Maybe its to do with reading about one's own landscape. I find J.M.Coetzee incredibly depressing. With Winton, there's an element of hope that totally escapes me in Coetzee's writing. I needed to know whether Fox was going to survive (no spoilers here)I cared about him. I never seem to care much about Coetzee's characters.<br /><br />And yes, Sarah, this is Robberg Beach in Plettenberg Bay... I left it yesterday afternoon and am back in London today.<br /><br />The jellyfish is upside down. That's the underneath looking like a Victorian party jelly. The pics are to delude myself that I'm doing something creative by taking photographs!Dianne Hofmeyrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222157214605257030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-40433785007382559322011-02-26T11:03:38.780+00:002011-02-26T11:03:38.780+00:00You have already beautifully evoked this beach and...You have already beautifully evoked this beach and those jellyfish pics are AMAZING!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08533913253403252799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-82936248906213700862011-02-26T10:58:13.969+00:002011-02-26T10:58:13.969+00:00Beautiful jellyfish photos!Beautiful jellyfish photos!Leilahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02890097085059764567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-73857069637995731232011-02-26T10:04:59.642+00:002011-02-26T10:04:59.642+00:00You have lots of evocative words here, Diane - whe...You have lots of evocative words here, Diane - when the plot comes, there are words ready and waiting to run with it. Lovely photos - especially the jellyfish1Stroppy Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16560035800075465845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-52342647691932692252011-02-26T10:03:12.646+00:002011-02-26T10:03:12.646+00:00Dirt Music is one of my favourite books! About a y...Dirt Music is one of my favourite books! About a year after finishing it, I started reading it again, something I rarely do. I like the way he has Fox disappear into the landscape, as if absorbed by it, and wondered if there were any Aboriginal people's influences here. <br /><br />And I love your huge jellyfish photos, too! Is the other picture of Plettenburg Beach by any chance? I have been there if it is.Sarah Taylor-Fergussonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01507013836947182706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-6432424871181898532011-02-26T09:22:23.986+00:002011-02-26T09:22:23.986+00:00I find Winton depressing...not sure if I will read...I find Winton depressing...not sure if I will read any more of his work.catdownunderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06959328192182156574noreply@blogger.com