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ms_tiahmarie 's review for:
No Signposts in the Sea
by Vita Sackville-West
- Is it any more extraordinary than the things that people will say to one in railway carriages? That their husbands beat them, for instance, or that their son is in prison for forging a cheque. -
- She certainly has the gift of involuntarily drawing people out. I taxed her with fraudulence, for although, as she says, she is interested, it is in a very detached way. -
- The average reader skims; he does not pause to observe what you, Laura, rightly called the pattern. He does not weigh, as the author has weighed, the value of each word; eh does not stop to notice in passing the subtlety of small touches by which you have endeavoured to build up your structure. Indeed one might say that it takes a writer to appreciate another writer, one craftsman appreciating the technical skill of another craftsman. But above all there is this question of*seeing*. -
- 'And [he's] so dependable. One could rely on him in a shipwreck.' ' Shipwrecks occur so seldom in a life-time. For ordinary purposes I prefer people to be amusing.' -
- Thus in extreme old age do people revert to forgotten scenes with a vividness of memory that has no counterpart in their present. What does it matter if today is Wednesday or Thursday, when one can recall the glow of building a snow-man and sticking a pipe into his mouth.
- She certainly has the gift of involuntarily drawing people out. I taxed her with fraudulence, for although, as she says, she is interested, it is in a very detached way. -
- The average reader skims; he does not pause to observe what you, Laura, rightly called the pattern. He does not weigh, as the author has weighed, the value of each word; eh does not stop to notice in passing the subtlety of small touches by which you have endeavoured to build up your structure. Indeed one might say that it takes a writer to appreciate another writer, one craftsman appreciating the technical skill of another craftsman. But above all there is this question of*seeing*. -
- 'And [he's] so dependable. One could rely on him in a shipwreck.' ' Shipwrecks occur so seldom in a life-time. For ordinary purposes I prefer people to be amusing.' -
- Thus in extreme old age do people revert to forgotten scenes with a vividness of memory that has no counterpart in their present. What does it matter if today is Wednesday or Thursday, when one can recall the glow of building a snow-man and sticking a pipe into his mouth.