tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082470.post1421604944110827040..comments2024-03-28T22:51:28.222+05:30Comments on The Middle Stage: Things I've been readingChandrahashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07483080477755487202noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082470.post-46508988873962437492010-05-30T22:14:39.691+05:302010-05-30T22:14:39.691+05:30I read the Galassi post as well, but I wonder if t...I read the Galassi post as well, but I wonder if this has more to do with Donald Knuth and Tex/LaTex than anything else. A friend asked me to correct the English in his manuscript and I sent it back to him typeset with LaTex. The difference between the LaTex presentation and what's vomited up by Microsoft Word, or Open Office or any of the usual suspects is extraordinary. Given that manual typesetting is rare, holding a "typeset" text merely involves passing your text through Latex and printing it on a home printer. Now you're looking at what is in essence an unbound galley. Do you still feel the love?m.o.kanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18000971708371483547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082470.post-36770530859716715462010-02-12T08:18:31.292+05:302010-02-12T08:18:31.292+05:30@Chandrahas
Thanks so much.
I've been meaning ...@Chandrahas<br />Thanks so much.<br />I've been meaning to read them, and now I can say I have started.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16228904921664024000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082470.post-24076393805702089482010-02-05T13:17:16.044+05:302010-02-05T13:17:16.044+05:30Hi,
I stumbled here after reading your short stor...Hi, <br />I stumbled here after reading your short story, 'Dnyaneshwar Kulkarni changes his name' which I found extremely good. More so, because I live very near to Charni Road station. :)<br /><br />Being a writer myself, I was very glad to read the Jonathan Galassi interview. I usually write on a pen and paper, and have always felt the editing process to be extremely harsh when you look at your own lousy handwriting. <br /><br />"Am I repeating the character's peculiar state of mind in the situation, twice?"<br /><br />"This is too real. And Matter-of-fact. Got to make it a bit more fictional so that the reader is able to transport easily."<br /><br />"There is nothing wrong with this really, but it's not like you know, funny or anything at all. Something, just doesn't feel great."<br /><br /><br />and the insecurity goes on and on, until you finally settle on the text that you had written first, with a few edits. <br /><br />It is very heartening to see that this is true for other writers also. :)Sameerhttp://sameerjha.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082470.post-77301334907851106022010-02-04T11:27:37.208+05:302010-02-04T11:27:37.208+05:30Krishna - Sure. Why don't you try reading the ...Krishna - Sure. Why don't you try reading the poems of <a href="http://www.cavafy.com/poems/list.asp?cat=1" rel="nofollow">Constantine Cavafy </a>? Or else the poems of <a href="http://middlestage.blogspot.com/2007/07/wislawa-szymborska-curious-about.html" rel="nofollow">Wislawa Szymborska</a>? Good to see that you're so keen!Chandrahashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07483080477755487202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082470.post-16325026174602679212010-02-04T10:53:10.495+05:302010-02-04T10:53:10.495+05:30I know exactly one person who has read poetry for ...I know exactly one person who has read poetry for pleasure(that too, a few decades ago).<br />My father's and grandfather's generation were weaned on a healthy respect for poetry: they can quote their favorite poems when moved enough: even now.<br />But somehow we've not been able to connect with poetry as a form of literature; unless you count the forced ingurgigation in high school and before.<br />I , for example, was quite unable to connect very well to what you wrote: even if I forced myself, my eyes started glazing away at some point.<br />I suspect this would be true for most Indian readers in English(those unacquainted with Urdu or vernacular traditions - like me)<br />Can you recommend a collection of poetry that comes down to the level of an unacquainted(and possibly unappreciative)reader? It's been entirely my loss for not being a part of this world.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16228904921664024000noreply@blogger.com