Friday 18 September 2015

To quote my hero...






If you are a regular visitor to The Rock, you will know that in November 2014, I had a stab at my first blogging challenge, during the course of which, I met my best blogging buddies Mary-Anne up there in Canada 'Breathing Life' and Judy over in England at 'Edwina's Episodes'. 

Well, Judy is something of a crazy blog-aholic; she'll chug-a-lug down any writing challenge as if it was a tepid cup of tea.

The last challenge she passed on to Mary-Anne and me was to write at least a paragraph without using the letter e. This time it's to post three quotations that mean something to us over the next three days.

So I'm going to start with an extract from the novel I go to whenever I want to be inspired. Or moved. Or to remind myself that I'm not a writer's bootlace: Tim Winton's Cloudstreet. 
 
Will you look at us by the river! The whole restless mob of us on spread blankets in the dreamy briny sunshine skylarking and chiacking about for one day, one clear, clean, sweet day in a good world in the midst of our living. Yachts run before an unfelt gust with bagnecked pelicans riding above them, the city their twitching backdrop, all blocks and points of mirror light down to the water's edge.
  
Genius.
His shameless Australian diction. 
His unique ability to use the wrong adjective to create an exact image, or to invent the perfect word where none existed before. 
How he breaks the rules of punctuation so carefully that all meaning is possible and positions a word as an unfamiliar part of speech to build a sentence that sings. Or cries. 
Art with words.
Poetry in prose.
Tim Winton is my hero.
What would Cortazar say that reveals about me?

7 comments:

  1. Great comment on the quote. Certainly reveals your love of reading and that you take on board what you read.

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    1. Yes... Words and dots in combinations that open the world fascinate me.

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    2. Now I have to find the book so I can read the whole thing!

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    3. PLEASE do...
      It's my fave book in the whole universe

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  2. That's a fabulous "quote" It makes me wish I was right there! I am guiltily sitting on the 3-quote tag someone was kind enough to bestow on me. Maybe I'll do it now.

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  3. It's a fabulous novel, Vidya. Magical. I had trouble choosing a piece as I kept getting lost in it all over again.
    Please do the quote challenge... For added difficulty, I'll challenge you to make them all illustrate your homeland in some way...
    You know how I love to travel.....

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