It is now the middle of August: I have been resting for 2 weeks approx - after finishing GATD there was my cousin's funeral - and the horror and emotion of everything that happened there. I relaxed by just seeing friends, getting drunk, cooking food, making jam, and washing sheets for the continuous round of visitors we have had since then. It has not been a time for kicking back and reading - nor have I written anything on the Last Things project.
I have not touched GATD - but I have had one or two satisfactory experiences of seeing "Darren" around the place - giving his kids instruction and support... wonderfully vindicating. I didn't just make him up, these blokes exist.
However, the fact is, that I don't want to sit around and read - and I am finding it hard to settle to a book. I fear I am going to be reading Antonia Fraser's The Loves of Louis XIV because it's nice and easy.
I am also full of ideas for revising TRF (groan) - I think there were a lot of good things in the original versions, and I want to get those back somehow. I also think maybe (and there is of course an IRL reason for this) that I want to change the ending - he goes back to his wife, and stays with her... and she concludes her meditations on love.... BUT then I suspect that we would worry about whether the story is "too slight" - or does she push him under a train...
I have not touched GATD - but I have had one or two satisfactory experiences of seeing "Darren" around the place - giving his kids instruction and support... wonderfully vindicating. I didn't just make him up, these blokes exist.
However, the fact is, that I don't want to sit around and read - and I am finding it hard to settle to a book. I fear I am going to be reading Antonia Fraser's The Loves of Louis XIV because it's nice and easy.
I am also full of ideas for revising TRF (groan) - I think there were a lot of good things in the original versions, and I want to get those back somehow. I also think maybe (and there is of course an IRL reason for this) that I want to change the ending - he goes back to his wife, and stays with her... and she concludes her meditations on love.... BUT then I suspect that we would worry about whether the story is "too slight" - or does she push him under a train...
