[Afamilyatwar-list] Brief Encounter

[john at johnfinch.com]

On 16.07.2018 19:57, Scott Filderman via Afamilyatwar-list wrote:
> 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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Thanks Scott.  I think if it wasn't for perceptive readers like yourself 
I'd probably have given up a long time ago.  Although the book has been 
reisued as an ebook?paper back it hasn't, alas, taken off as it did when 
first published quite a few years ago.    JOHN