cayman islands by Tony Walton, on Flickr
May I steal a identified copy of Mr. Simon for my animal pics collection?
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
Simon said, "Sure, I would autograph if I didn't have stumpy paws"
Warm thanks to Simon. I really will miss his autograph. On the subject on paws and writing I recommend the rather extensive Memories of Cat Murr, a German self educated Cat Gentleman, who suggests that the problem of cat writing is due to the position of the tumb.
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
I'll look that up. Simon listens to catcher in the rye on audio - and is going thru a Holden Caulfield phase
That´s good too!
Here you are:
"Now that I could read fluently, and was daily cramming myself with
more and more new notions, I felt the most irresistible urge to wrest my
own ideas from oblivion, born of my native genius as they were! Yet to
do so called for the art of writing, which is admittedly very difficult.
However carefully I might watch my master’s hand as he wrote, I just
could not manage to pick up the actual mechanics of the thing from him.
I studied old Hilmar Curas,24 the one manual of calligraphy that my
master possessed, and almost reached the conclusion that the mysterious
difficulty of writing could be removed only by wearing the large cuff
seen on the diagram of the writing hand depicted in that book, and that
it was due only to the special facility my master had acquired that he
wrote without a cuff, just as an expert tightrope walker can eventually
do without his balancing pole. I kept a keen eye open for cuffs, and was
on the point of tearing up the old housekeeper’s nightcap and adapting it
for my right paw when, in a flash of inspiration such as persons of
genius are wont to have, the brilliant idea which solved everything
occurred to me. For I surmised that the impossibility of my holding a
pen or pencil as my master did might lie in the different structure of our
hands, and in that surmise I was correct! I had to devise another way of
writing, suited to the build of my little right paw, and as you might
expect, devise it I did. Thus do whole new systems arise from the
particular organic structure of the individual!"
E T A Hoffman-THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF THE
TOMCAT MURR
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
watergate hotel by Tony Walton, on Flickr
Loved this characteristic decoration!And your mirroring picture. But is the name really Watergate?
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
thanks! , yes. Watergate Hotel is quite famous (in America) for the location of the burglary involving President Richard Nixon (resigned as President). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal
man on dock cayman islands by Tony Walton, on Flickr
cayman islands by Tony Walton, on Flickr
Interesting shades of blue in both last pictures. And liked the lonely man sitting with the back to the photographer...
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
camana bay cayman islands by Tony Walton, on Flickr