[Afamilyatwar-list] Brief Encounter

[Scott Filderman]

I was impressed by the phrase because it so manifestly expresses the spirit of your work: the struggle of living and the Beckett-like sense of “I can’t go on; I’ll go on.” The beautiful performances of your casts express that urge to move on...with so little expectation that, inevitably, anger erupts.
The fact that those four words are given by the story’s narrator rather than by any of the characters gives further impact to the idea.






On Monday, July 16, 2018, 2:25 PM, john at johnfinch.com wrote:

On 16.07.2018 15:18, Scott Filderman via Afamilyatwar-list wrote:
> “...we are all lost.”
> 
> John Finch, Cuddon Return, p.202, 1979, Souvenir Press
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Dear Scott,  You have a habit of reminding me that I was once a writer.  
  I had forgotten the four words I wrote at the end of the passage on 
page 202 of Cuddon Return (NOWtitled A SHAFT OF LIGHT).    It was taken 
by me from an actual incident when I was a messenger boy in the ARP.  
Odd lines like this occasionally  crop up in different places, probably 
having stuck in my mind and then their previous usuage forgotten.  They 
were what probably prompted different critics to use the phrase "that 
doUr writer" .  Inevitable I suppose if you choose to writer about war 
and poverty.      JOHN



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