tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161026132284731386.post3892880981707550075..comments2024-03-23T08:58:00.291+11:00Comments on Flying With Hands: Scylla & CharybdisPipistrellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07904613196101010022noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161026132284731386.post-3558016710811906082019-12-27T09:19:47.491+11:002019-12-27T09:19:47.491+11:00Jenny Woolf: Hello! And welcome to these pages. Yo...Jenny Woolf: Hello! And welcome to these pages. You are so right that appreciation of a book has to coincide with more factors than just the reading - the stars really do have to be in alignment - and sometimes even the rereading of a once-beloved book can be surprisingly disappointing. I hope you find a nugget of delight in the PB next time, just as I hope it will still deserve my acclaim when IPipistrellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07904613196101010022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161026132284731386.post-47776013995954686272019-12-27T07:37:01.485+11:002019-12-27T07:37:01.485+11:00Ah, yet another person who loves the Poisonwood Bi...Ah, yet another person who loves the Poisonwood Bible (or two, if I count your mum). I tried it once and couldn't get along with it, but have always wondered if I just wasn't at the right stage of life or something, so I have intended to have another go. Perhaps your praise has been the grain of sand that tips the scales in favour of trying again. Jenny Woolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16881781466502273314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161026132284731386.post-51079123123846074092019-12-02T00:31:33.529+11:002019-12-02T00:31:33.529+11:00GSL: The Good Doctor has a Good Friend in you, no ...GSL: The Good Doctor has a Good Friend in you, no doubt at all. Dedication without expecting laudation is a pretty rare phenomenon in the modern world, but I guess if you're going to encounter such a being they're more likely to be found in the medical sphere. And iff you're going to do that job properly, there are some things that really have to give - gallant disinterest as a Pipistrellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07904613196101010022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161026132284731386.post-76829876591572333742019-12-01T21:09:54.730+11:002019-12-01T21:09:54.730+11:00...you likely already knew that Sherlock Holmes wa......you likely already knew that Sherlock Holmes was based on Arthur Conan Doyle's medical school professor at the Univ of Edinburgh: Dr Joseph Bell. My Good Doctor has just as many amusing eccentricities as either Holmes or Bell but no Turkish tobacco in Persian Slippers but many 3-pipe problems to sort out.GSLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04903412564467078538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161026132284731386.post-12610638708935840102019-12-01T20:59:29.811+11:002019-12-01T20:59:29.811+11:00My dear Pippy, I occasionally reference my best fr...My dear Pippy, I occasionally reference my best friend "The Good Doctor" on my blog who is exactly like Sherlock Holmes only rather than Consulting Detective his Life's Work has been to toil in the unprestigous and underpaid field of medicine for War Veterans which in the USA is under the famously incompetent Veterans Administration traditionally a refuge for mediocrities and much GSLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04903412564467078538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161026132284731386.post-52852262601100225572019-11-30T13:56:09.515+11:002019-11-30T13:56:09.515+11:00Contessa: Oops, in my effort to shape the paragrap...Contessa: Oops, in my effort to shape the paragraphs to fit tidily by pruning words here and there, I seem to have lost some Key Words in the process and made the result rather abstruse! Not what was intended - although the danger of leaving my original thoughts in their natural state is that my going On & On would lead you, Dear Reader, to want to attack it with shears! I do try to prevent Pipistrellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07904613196101010022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161026132284731386.post-16054218563073582022019-11-30T11:14:52.537+11:002019-11-30T11:14:52.537+11:00YOU have completely LOST ME HERE!
BUT I BELIEVE YO...YOU have completely LOST ME HERE!<br />BUT I BELIEVE YOU!!!<br />baci<br />XXLa Contessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01682902106545680159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161026132284731386.post-33591637330433455832019-11-29T18:55:48.047+11:002019-11-29T18:55:48.047+11:00Cro: Good question. Although P.G.W. did seem an am...Cro: Good question. Although P.G.W. did seem an amiable sort of fellow and his extensive output of work might suggest a "more stories the better" attitude to someone writing a tribute-piece, you just don't know. In spite of the breeziness of his writing, a very large amount of care did go into each work, and out of curiosity I read a couple of reviews holding strong criticisms aboutPipistrellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07904613196101010022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161026132284731386.post-27953089545242222702019-11-29T17:24:05.068+11:002019-11-29T17:24:05.068+11:00Interesting literary forays and my knowledge on Ho...Interesting literary forays and my knowledge on Homer and Greek mythology is shamefully meager, I am quite at home at the Drones Club, Blandings Castle, daydream about the sublimely delish delicacies by Anatole and on this holiday weekend would certainly benefit from one of Jeeves' restoratives. I take great umbrage when the Classics so near and dear are "reworked". Like Bertie &GSLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04903412564467078538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161026132284731386.post-41318366781763202972019-11-29T16:07:54.222+11:002019-11-29T16:07:54.222+11:00I wonder if Wodehouse would have considered Faulks...I wonder if Wodehouse would have considered Faulks's book a 'homage'?Cro Magnonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840670227576695352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161026132284731386.post-6302590423308813912019-11-29T12:47:55.285+11:002019-11-29T12:47:55.285+11:00TofF: Why, thank you for such high praise! I am bl...TofF: Why, thank you for such high praise! I am blushing over my morning cup of tea. But the sudden concurrence of ideas across so many facets of our society is so obvious sometimes - and when the ScyllaXCharybdis (higher stakes and co-whatevering perfection!!) example popped onto my radar, I couldn't resist to jump on the bandwagon. Proving that there is indeed a limit to originality and Pipistrellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07904613196101010022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161026132284731386.post-75540439682806279752019-11-29T07:33:43.920+11:002019-11-29T07:33:43.920+11:00Scylla and Charybidis have been on my radar for a ...Scylla and Charybidis have been on my radar for a rather long time as I was a huge devotee of Greek myths and legends. I knew the names of all the gods and their legitimate and illegitimate offspring and would inform anyone that was interested (not many were, except my poor mum, but I rather think she was just being polite) from where the Aegean sea got its name, why the peacock has so many eyes Loreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12520908604580765632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161026132284731386.post-16087074846890898162019-11-29T04:59:53.280+11:002019-11-29T04:59:53.280+11:00You win a prize for the best first line of a blog ...You win a prize for the best first line of a blog ever. (And I'm a very discerning judge.)<br />I haven't run into any Scylla-and-Charybdis references recently (but I wouldn't be surprised if there were, and if they were written as ScyllaXCharybdis, with this X thing connoting cooperation, co-branding, co-whatever-you-wish. An alternative is +, as in Scylla+Charybdis.). <br />My firstTaste of Francehttp://francetaste.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com