tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post1967042828596056094..comments2024-03-22T09:02:07.409+00:00Comments on conradwalks: LonelinessSir Hughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-68620426459053583212014-08-13T23:47:27.352+01:002014-08-13T23:47:27.352+01:00The Crow - thanks for your praise. This was a real...The Crow - thanks for your praise. This was a real event and as such fairly easy for me to write about, although I did take a lot of time and revision to get it how I wanted, but to to continue with a fictional story I would be struggling - my mind just doesn't do it, although I have never tried really hard. I reckon you would need to have an outline of the rest of the plot to start with and I don't think I have that ingenuity, particularly for the genre you are suggesting.Sir Hughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-36421914091136274552014-08-13T16:52:56.385+01:002014-08-13T16:52:56.385+01:00Certainly, RR could write a pretty good mystery if...Certainly, RR could write a pretty good mystery if he tried the genre, but it wouldn't have your voice, and that is what I would want to "hear."<br /><br />Though I wrote that half in jest, I sincerely believe you could spin a very good tale. What you wrote here had me hooked and wanting to know what happened next. Good signs for a good story to come.The Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04846997590157958766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-56399649158641462832014-08-13T09:03:06.389+01:002014-08-13T09:03:06.389+01:00The Crow - Perhaps I could sell the outline to RR?...The Crow - Perhaps I could sell the outline to RR?<br /><br />----------<br /><br />BC - I usually do.<br /><br />-----------<br /><br />RR - The trouble is I have always had a soft spot for dogs, but recent events like being bitten by the pub dog a few weeks ago on one of my walks, and this event are beginning to make me more wary.<br /><br />------------<br /><br />gimmer - I appreciate you entering into the spirit of this whimsical anecdote.Sir Hughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-68127582506438819332014-08-10T21:56:07.373+01:002014-08-10T21:56:07.373+01:00There is something strangely timeless (sorry about...There is something strangely timeless (sorry about that) and enthralling about an 'elderly gent' fashioning timepieces by hand late at night - it conjures up images from ancient (well, not too ancient as clocks were not invented until quite recently, as 'ancient' goes) folk-tales set deep in the Black Forest or somewhere like that - or Harrison struggling alone against the Lords of the Admiralty and declining health to give the Empire a device with which to rule the world! A good man to know, I suspect - Lord Cut-Glass' cousin, perhaps.<br />Barking dogs - you know I can make a dog bark at 1000 yards but silence them only with the taste of blood (usually mine)!gimmernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-10008093908238413662014-08-10T15:12:31.057+01:002014-08-10T15:12:31.057+01:00Occasionally I suffer from a barking dog. At times...Occasionally I suffer from a barking dog. At times it's hard to believe the source is organic. I worry that this being might lose all its spit, dry up and then split at the seams. A further worry is that the animal, not blessed with much of a mind, has now become mindless, having forgotten its original aim it barks because barking is all its sentient bits and pieces can accommodate. The most powerfil instinct we are endowed with is self-preservation; yet barking is - must be - self-destructive and the dog cannot recognise this.<br /><br />Faced with the choice I would be more able to make a clock than read through such clamour.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-80828621356415046762014-08-09T19:58:10.910+01:002014-08-09T19:58:10.910+01:00Sleep well.Sleep well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-50051277053451191432014-08-09T16:10:22.854+01:002014-08-09T16:10:22.854+01:00This event is fuel for a good mystery-thriller. Y...This event is fuel for a good mystery-thriller. You've written the perfect prologue. Eagerly awaiting the next chapter.The Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04846997590157958766noreply@blogger.com