Comments on: 10 Lessons from Heartbreak Time and Death and Resurrection in Writing my Memoir (Part I) https://anitamathias.com/2013/04/29/10-lessons-from-heartbreak-time-and-death-and-resurrection-in-writing-my-memoir-part-i/ Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Tue, 07 Jan 2014 21:58:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: John Vagabond https://anitamathias.com/2013/04/29/10-lessons-from-heartbreak-time-and-death-and-resurrection-in-writing-my-memoir-part-i/#comment-20864 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:00:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=42873#comment-20864 In reply to Anita Mathias.

Didn’t know him. But then, I was a spotty oik and, worse still, a day boy Foundationer scholar. Smart but poor.

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At Rugby? Was A.N. Wilson a contemporary of yours then? He was married to my tutor at Somerville, & they’d kindly invite me over for tea over Christmas!

]]> By: John Vagabond https://anitamathias.com/2013/04/29/10-lessons-from-heartbreak-time-and-death-and-resurrection-in-writing-my-memoir-part-i/#comment-20862 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:32:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=42873#comment-20862 In reply to Anita Mathias.

As a matter of interest, I was at school with Rushdie – he was a year or so above me thus I didn’t know him. Share your admiration for Nabokov, there’s an achingly familiar melancholy about him which resonates with a professional Eeyore like me.

]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2013/04/29/10-lessons-from-heartbreak-time-and-death-and-resurrection-in-writing-my-memoir-part-i/#comment-20861 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:39:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=42873#comment-20861 In reply to John Vagabond.

Mmm, Mobius strip sentences sound very interesting. No, Anita, don’t go down that route. Am trying to write clearly and transparently after years of being enamoured by stylists like Rushdie and Nabokov!

]]> By: John Vagabond https://anitamathias.com/2013/04/29/10-lessons-from-heartbreak-time-and-death-and-resurrection-in-writing-my-memoir-part-i/#comment-20860 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:32:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=42873#comment-20860 I’m a scientist. I’ve never taken a writing class in my life – in fact the very thought of having to attend one brings me out in a nervous rash. My own sentences aren’t so much pretzels as Mobius strips but I do recognise passion and ability when I read it. More love, more power – and thanks.

]]> By: 10 Lessons from Heartbreak Time, Death and Resurrection in Writing my Memoir (Part II) | Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com/2013/04/29/10-lessons-from-heartbreak-time-and-death-and-resurrection-in-writing-my-memoir-part-i/#comment-20859 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:59:39 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=42873#comment-20859 […] Continued from Part One, here. […]

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