tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14448002.post6440185426634685548..comments2024-02-25T08:10:11.118+08:00Comments on * the paradise of flowers and fruit *: National Language ClassNg Yi-Shenghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18175656890555470042noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14448002.post-52816222383090812872007-09-14T22:52:00.000+08:002007-09-14T22:52:00.000+08:00I wonder....did Kurt Vonnegut read Elizabeth Bowen...I wonder....did Kurt Vonnegut read Elizabeth Bowen? Interesting if so...I met Vonnegut at my alma mater once...and my mother is a Hoosier too. I see I was correct about all your activities. After I wrote that I thought maybe I had been presumptuous...but anyway, all those projects and excursions sound fun! And good fodder for later chewing and regurgitatingHan & Zanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05563600662100726913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14448002.post-23313460887914483782007-09-14T03:48:00.000+08:002007-09-14T03:48:00.000+08:00Is she the sister of Kilgore Trout from the Kurt V...Is she the sister of Kilgore Trout from the Kurt Vonnegut books?Ng Yi-Shenghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18175656890555470042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14448002.post-64609354972918678962007-09-12T18:25:00.000+08:002007-09-12T18:25:00.000+08:00I think you will, if you want to. But maybe you'll...I think you will, if you want to. But maybe you'll have to cut down on your myriad extra-curricular activities...but maybe not,(maybe I'm just jealous) maybe better to just DO everything!<BR/>My difficulties with character-driven fiction, I mean production of, include: (aside from the main one of not sitting down and writing), having to wait until my parents/in-laws are dead, fear of offending people I know by writing about them, inability to understand(disintrest in undersatnding?) anyone but Myself.<BR/>A character I love: Eva Trout, from Elizabeth Bowen's novel of the same name. Check her out one day.Han & Zanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05563600662100726913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14448002.post-44367186151364911182007-09-12T00:09:00.000+08:002007-09-12T00:09:00.000+08:00I would get really, really good at writing charact...I would get really, really good at writing character-driven narrative fiction. Like Truman Capote-good. Sigh.Ng Yi-Shenghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18175656890555470042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14448002.post-37414957669532399562007-09-10T19:12:00.000+08:002007-09-10T19:12:00.000+08:00Tack for svenska! I like angry hungry koi.Lots of ...Tack for svenska! <BR/>I like angry hungry koi.<BR/>Lots of juicy contradictions and discomfort in that scene.<BR/>If you had patience (assuming patience is what you think you lack), how would you hone your craft? And to what kind of work would you put it?Han & Zanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05563600662100726913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14448002.post-85736373444489994482007-09-05T10:34:00.000+08:002007-09-05T10:34:00.000+08:00Oh my, Kelas Bahasa Kebangsaan! (let me show off m...Oh my, Kelas Bahasa Kebangsaan! (let me show off my totally not-l33t Malay...) That's totally awesome. Did you watch the play on it last year? <BR/><BR/>Did Yujin fill you in on the political implications of that painting?Mezzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12832423014086477073noreply@blogger.com