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looby [Visitor] in response to: Descriptive analogies in the later fiction of Edna O'Brien

Wed, 01 Jun 2016 02:49:25 +0000

Don’t want to get involved in fisticuffs. A 9st arts graduate doesn’t really ever come off well in such situations.

And yes, all the rest of what you say is accurate.

The whole Wendy thing is ridiculous. It really is a folie. I veer between feeling hopelessly lost in her and sober mornings of thinking “what the fuck are you thinking?” Then next time I see her, I am back drowned in her again. You meet one Wendy in a lifetime, someone so thrilling. But I’m not going to have her. That makes me sad. I’d like to risk one or two answered prayers.

Exile on Pain Street [Visitor] in response to: Descriptive analogies in the later fiction of Edna O'Brien

Tue, 31 May 2016 09:45:31 +0000

Why didn’t you kick him? He certainly had it coming and I’m sure a few people would’ve joined in or, at minimum, applauded.

Your fists were clenched because she knows you so well or because she’s right? Perhaps a little of both.

Not the green one. Why did it have to be the green one? I’ll tell you why. Because she knows it’s your favo(u)rite.

Here’s a favo(u)rite of mind: Be careful of what you wish for.

“More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered prayers.”
Truman Capote

I’m not trying to spoil your fun. Just being the voice of reason.

looby [Member] in response to: Descriptive analogies in the later fiction of Edna O'Brien

Mon, 30 May 2016 02:31:46 +0000

Googling for your quote Isabelle, I found this site, En un Bosque de la China. Young and love-lorn, and fascinating. She has a great photograph to accompany Barthes’s text. Here it is if you don’t want to go via her blog.

And via it, this, which is going to get made into a card for Wendy.

looby [Member] in response to: Descriptive analogies in the later fiction of Edna O'Brien

Sun, 29 May 2016 10:29:00 +0000

Thanks Isabelle – that’s a great quote. I was looking back in my diary and this blog’s archives yesterday to find out when me and Wendy started knocking about together – the two of us – and it was from the beginning of this year, but I got to know her towards the end of 2013.

So the wait’s been a long one, and it goes on. I think about her all the time. I couldn’t invent a girl more likely to make me fall for her.

isabelle [Visitor] in response to: Descriptive analogies in the later fiction of Edna O'Brien

Sat, 28 May 2016 20:23:15 +0000

Ooo, you’ve got it bad…..

“Am I in love? –yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn’t wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.”
(Roland Barthes)

I hope she’ll reciprocate.
In my (limited) experience, love is unpredictable.