How to write
Jun 15, 2010 Uncategorized
If I ever get past the procrastination stage (and not even begin to consider how I’d word the dedication page to make you realise), I still don’t know how I could write descriptive text. When I try to write it, it seems over the top and sentimental. But when I read amazing passages like the one below from the very mad book The Bridge
At my back lay the desert, ahead the sea. One golden, one blue, they met like rival modes of time. One moved in the immediate, sparkling in troughs and crests, lifting white and falling, beating the shelf of sand, and the tide as breath . . . the other moved more slowly, but as surely, the tall advancing waves of sand stroked over the waste by the combing hand of the unseen wind.
See what I mean? By the way, the iBooks application on the iPad makes it amazingly easy to clip and bookmark your favourite section of books, just in case you don’t own one… yet.
iPads, Fartzilla and Richard Parker
Jun 8, 2010 Uncategorized
OK, so I have an iPad. And it’s totally beautiful. However 50% of my time on the iPad is spent playing the amazing addictive “DoodleJump” game. The other 50% is a re-re-re-reading of Life of Pi, to see if I am still completely in love with Richard Parker (I am) and whether it’s possible to read a book properly on a screen (it is).
This quote made me think of so many things…
His sole comment on the event was a cranky meow. “I love you!” The words burst out pure and unfettered, infinite. The feeling flooded my chest. “Truly I do. I love you, Richard Parker. If I didn’t have you now, I don’t know what I would do. I don’t think I would make it. No, I wouldn’t. I would die of hopelessness. Don’t give up, Richard Parker, don’t give up. I’ll get you to land, I promise, I promise!”
Such a perfect declaration of love. Makes the botched goodbye even more poignant. I wonder if Pi also dreams of meeting Richard Parker again?
As for my book, well, the image above sums that up pretty well, made me laugh so much!