[lit-ideas] Re: a distant jargoning
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On 23-Aug-11, at 2:52 PM, Judith Evans wrote:
Wasn't The History Man prompted by something that happened to
Bradbury? I should say, I didn't hear any as it were definite
rumours about it, just that vague suggestion. (A suggestion of more
than "outmoded", assuming that was true of Bradbury then, and I've
no idea.) I did hear the usual suggestions about who the History Man
was, one definitely wrong, IMO, one -- Laurie Taylor -- that should
have been true but apparently wasn't! (I was also told who Miss
Callendar was... .)
Did you see the TV series, Chris?
[Sorry to take so long to respond] No, I didn't. I don't have a
television and only see what people post to YouTube (such as the
Dalziel & Pascoe series, some episodes of which, as I've said, were
written by Bradbury). No one has as yet posted THE HISTORY MAN there
(here's hoping).
Living without a TV I regard as one of the clearly correct decisions I
have made in my life (I believe I have - or had, to be precise - Iris
Murdoch on my side, there).
Bradbury and Angus Wilson of course founded the UEA's Creative
Writing course.
Yes - and quite an impressive list of students they had, too!
Chris Bruce, in
Kiel, Germany
P.S. Another nice bit of word-play from Murdoch's AN UNOFFICIAL ROSE:
"a folded flock of sheep".
-cb
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