tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851448459618487484.post782624803857087266..comments2013-11-28T09:28:12.029-08:00Comments on One fine day: MetamorphosisAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851448459618487484.post-10909808125889988462012-10-28T15:46:35.431-07:002012-10-28T15:46:35.431-07:00Are you absolutely sure that it was a real dog?Are you absolutely sure that it was a real dog?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851448459618487484.post-41136435326316201652012-10-28T10:44:11.045-07:002012-10-28T10:44:11.045-07:00Very interesting concept and narratikve to go with...Very interesting concept and narratikve to go with it. I once had the experience of seeing a dog playing billiards in a pub in Lambeth. It was a real dog - a Boxer - that looked along its master's cue to see how the shot was lining up, then had a go too pushing the billiard ball out with his paw. Lucashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07642126053527835870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851448459618487484.post-19726264217761255532012-10-28T02:23:56.389-07:002012-10-28T02:23:56.389-07:00Very perceptive. My attitude to Charles, a passing...Very perceptive. My attitude to Charles, a passing acquaintance, though generally benign, was I suppose inimical. Which leaves me rather patronising in my attitude to him. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851448459618487484.post-27912315002228173972012-10-28T00:26:44.962-07:002012-10-28T00:26:44.962-07:00There are ambitious implications here. Since you a...There are ambitious implications here. Since you are "moving right along" when it comes to short story writing let me remind you of one of your earlier observations about my novels: a suggestion that the characters all spoke with the same voice. Thus, if you choose to transform your blogopic you must change your style of writing to match.<br /><br />Soon after I bought my Kindle I was faced with all those great names for free and I optimistically downloaded a number of them. And now I'm in need of a new cliché. Ovid's Metamorphosis was among them and whereas I'm glad that types me as literary I am unable to say (given Kindle has rendered it dust-proof), that it is presently gathering dust. "Untouched by electron flow" lacks euphony; "beyond my quotidian universe" strains for effect; "dead beneath the screen" might work.<br /><br />You attitude towards Charles seems a trifle languid but could it have become inimical? Raising the question: how do seagulls regard frogs?Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.com