The WELL: inkwell.vue.321: Pamela McCorduck, "The Edge of Chaos"

#128: Gail Williams (gail) Tue 18 Mar 08 22:02

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:02:00 PDT

Of course. [Read entire topic]

#127: Allegro ma non tofu (pamela) Mon 17 Mar 08 19:15

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:15:00 PDT

But Scott is quite right, of course. [Read entire topic]

#126: Gail Williams (gail) Mon 17 Mar 08 11:33

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:33:00 PDT

You crack me up, the lot of you! [Read entire topic]

#125: Scott MacFarlane (s-macfarlane) Sat 15 Mar 08 20:17

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:17:00 PDT

isn't the grandest cosmic jest, at the very edges of chaos? [Read entire topic]

#124: David Kline (kline) Sat 15 Mar 08 20:15

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:15:00 PDT

Or we're told he answers them and we just don't understand the answers; or we're told that he hears them and just laughs. [Read entire topic]

#123: Allegro ma non tofu (pamela) Thu 13 Mar 08 08:00

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:00:00 PDT

If so, I am deaf to it.

Sort of like prayers to God, isn't it? We're told He hears them, even if he doesn't answer. [Read entire topic]

#122: Scott MacFarlane (s-macfarlane) Wed 12 Mar 08 14:34

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:34:00 PDT

Metaromance-- a new genre! [Read entire topic]

#121: David Kline (kline) Wed 12 Mar 08 12:06

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:06:00 PDT

And then later, I came along and asked you again about your willful characters, with minds of their own. Do they ever try to use what what Jostein Gaarder (he of _Sophie's World_) calls "romantic irony" and yell out "Help, I'm a prisoner character in a chaotic novel by someone's enigmatic elder aunt!" [Read entire topic]

#120: Allegro ma non tofu (pamela) Tue 11 Mar 08 08:13

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:13:00 PDT

Over the weekend, somebody asked me if my character Molloy had anything to do with Beckett's novel called "Molloy." Yes, I fessed up; it was a tribute to Beckett, and the two characters have some things in common. [Read entire topic]

#119: Allegro ma non tofu (pamela) Fri 7 Mar 08 14:14

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:14:00 PST

It was a great pleasure for me. I'm sorry I wasn't always very articulate about the creative process, but katecat as an actor knows how mysterious that process can be, and so, I'm sure does everyone else.

Yes--those issues, love and work, friendship, aging, dying: they preoccupied me as I wrote, and they continue to preoccupy me. I've been extraordinarily lucky in love and friendship and work, and that luck has assuaged aging and the inevitable. Not everyone gets such a privilege. I'm grateful. [Read entire topic]