Comments on: DWGs, or, New Old Reads http://gibberish.sidewhites.com/2010/02/dwgs-or-new-old-reads/ Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:09:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: The Lock Artist | Literary Gibberish http://gibberish.sidewhites.com/2010/02/dwgs-or-new-old-reads/comment-page-1/#comment-2239 The Lock Artist | Literary Gibberish Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:31:36 +0000 http://gibberish.sidewhites.com/?p=251#comment-2239 [...] Or was that Socrates? Whatever. 2 Though nothing on the order of what my good friend Walter has been into recently 3 There. I said it. 4 Pretty simple really. We get the first half (childhood) of the plot told in [...] [...] Or was that Socrates? Whatever. 2 Though nothing on the order of what my good friend Walter has been into recently 3 There. I said it. 4 Pretty simple really. We get the first half (childhood) of the plot told in [...]

]]> By: Conan http://gibberish.sidewhites.com/2010/02/dwgs-or-new-old-reads/comment-page-1/#comment-2237 Conan Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:32:03 +0000 http://gibberish.sidewhites.com/?p=251#comment-2237 Ah, perhaps when one is steeped in the Exotic the mundane becomes mystical? Or perhaps these dudes can just flat-out write. I wonder here whether your appreciation of the prose has anything to do with dealing directly with your native language. I've never been one to denigrate translations but I suppose the more direct access you have to the writer's tongue the more likely you are to identify strictly with his or her prose. Glad you are finding words to nurture the soul in these bare times. Any shelter in a storm and there's certainly no shame in reading those DWG's. Especially if one of those DWG's happens to be the late DWF. Ah, perhaps when one is steeped in the Exotic the mundane becomes mystical? Or perhaps these dudes can just flat-out write. I wonder here whether your appreciation of the prose has anything to do with dealing directly with your native language. I’ve never been one to denigrate translations but I suppose the more direct access you have to the writer’s tongue the more likely you are to identify strictly with his or her prose.

Glad you are finding words to nurture the soul in these bare times. Any shelter in a storm and there’s certainly no shame in reading those DWG’s. Especially if one of those DWG’s happens to be the late DWF.

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