tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1677897272521986227.post2947696003964527648..comments2012-01-03T16:11:55.921-08:00Comments on Table Talk: Bob Ellis on film and theatre.: Moore Park Revisited: Fred Schepisi's Eye of the StormBob Ellishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13593615480631787011noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1677897272521986227.post-3735955083666569132011-12-16T00:52:46.339-08:002011-12-16T00:52:46.339-08:00Sorry, I can't get through White. The seventee...Sorry, I can't get through White. The seventeenth draft of any sentence has its head under the armpit of the eighth which has its nose in the crutch of the third which is scratching the tinia of the eleventh which is picking the nise of the seventh and his people are sometimes lofty caricatures of the working classes I grew up with and know, I suggest, a bit better. <br /><br />But I wouldn't know. I managed half of Eye Of The Storm, fifty pages of Voss, a lot of short stories and his autobiography. <br /><br />But I wouldn't know.Bob Ellishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08471297054273221512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1677897272521986227.post-32735297418593707502011-11-28T12:33:09.496-08:002011-11-28T12:33:09.496-08:00Anna Funder?!?! You see Bob, that's the proble...Anna Funder?!?! You see Bob, that's the problem with these lists of yours - you corrupt the serious with the casual. <br />I suggest, for the sake of gravitas, you refrain from such silliness. Curb your tendency for the scatter-gun...go in with your best argument.<br /><br />Anyway.....Yes, better. I thought about answering your question in the standard fashion; layering argument, citing example, examining theme,language and structure.<br />But that would get me nowhere.<br />With you.<br />Let me try this instead.<br />White is "better" because......if Malouf or Carey, for example, had written "Aunt's Story", "Fringe of Leaves", "Voss", "Solid Mandala" and "Riders in the Chariot", you Bob Ellis, yes YOU, would be sitting there praising them as the finest contributions to Australian literature.<br />Would you not?<br />I daresay you would.<br /><br />As a postscript, from your selections and from what I have read, I would say that only Carey's "Kelly Gang" has the imaginative force of first rate literature. I found it's language and creative verve astounding.<br />But that's just me.<br /><br />Congratulations on your blog. I hope it is a success for you.<br />Keep up your contributions at the Drum.<br />They are, for the most part, both inspired and inspiring.J.G.Colehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08187705683287854715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1677897272521986227.post-29076468860997724852011-11-27T23:12:23.633-08:002011-11-27T23:12:23.633-08:00Better than Kate Grenville? Peter Carey? Anna Fund...Better than Kate Grenville? Peter Carey? Anna Funder? David Malouf? Really?<br /><br />Why do you say that?Bob Ellishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13593615480631787011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1677897272521986227.post-91970361539534832932011-11-26T16:34:18.261-08:002011-11-26T16:34:18.261-08:00"What a crabbed and rancorous old shit Patric..."What a crabbed and rancorous old shit Patrick was" - <br />That may well be true Bob Ellis - but he was the finest novelist this country has seen.J.G.Colehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08187705683287854715noreply@blogger.com