h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

~j~

Hoped you'd appreciate this; had you and AGG/GAG in the back of my mind while I was researching poor Moribund.

So is kiss miasthma anything like Poe's rank miasma (differently pronounced by a university lecturer of mine who had the most beautiful soft r's)?

SLAGIATT - *seemed like a good idea at the time* - trust you to correct my spelling of miasma and dredge up some lost and dusty memory file on Poe, whence the inspiration may have sprung, for what seemed like a good idea at.. you know. In fact, as you will see in postings 21 - 25 here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/F59486?thread=91298&skip=20&show=20 I even took some pains to explain it to Tefkat. Curiously: Tefkat, by her use of a 'smiley's only' posting in that thread, also inspired my 'comment' (post #1 above) about your prose work. It seeming approriate to speak to an visual artist in visual symbols only when complimenting their 'written' work. As I read your piece I too thought, this would be good for Agg/Gag, but I guess it's already in the Post... That said, however, my unreserved appreciation of your literacy makes you a guaranteed 'shoe-in' should you ever wish to have Agg/Gag promote your writing - perhaps a piece called 'Art For Art's Sake' or "Van Gogh's Other Ear" or... In any case, now that I actually know what a miasma is (and how to spell it) I have replaced the line with the Family motto (temporarily). I honestly thought miasma was like an asthma, a breathing difficulty, such as kissing or other intense exercise is liable to produce. (aka: panting, puffing, etc) ~jwf~ 'the long winded'

Oops, didn't mean to exchange pedantries for once, just riffing on your pun.

I remain ambivalent about smilies or smileys. They work as punctuation (though I'll never experience the joy from a smiley that I did when I discovered that I had a semi-colon in my mobile phone after all: go ahead punctuation, make my day) but I'm uneasy when they crop up in place of words (whole sentences might be acceptable as fun code of concision). Oh, I don't really care as long as *I* don't have to use them; trod on one the other day after converting my space to ML and it gave me a nasty turn to see it crop up in the resultant post. (AGG/GAG has a link in my space now.)

Talking of which - yes, been meaning to write something about art for a long time, plus my piece on 'How to be a domestic Hemingway'.

The idea that an artist could only write about art was meant to be ironic. By way of underlining my own delight that you can write as well as do the art thing.

The world tends to pigeonhole people and label them as this or that. You, labelled as 'artist', took us all by surprise with your literacy.
To now suggest you should/could/would only write about art was a 'last stand' for my narrowmindedness.

My own writing skills fail me far too often. I reached beyond my grasp. Perhaps I should take up drawing.

peace
jwf

Surprised by my literacy? Really? Yes, no reason why not, I suppose. How were you to know that I joined h2g2 to force myself to write, oh, and maybe some drawing if there's an outlet?

It's like Macallan and Laphroaig, Prokofiev and Shostakovich... no it's not, bad similie (similies should be avoided like smileys). I was going to say that in each of the above cases, the second is my proclaimed favourite except when partaking of the other, and liken this to drawing and writing. But I was wrong: when drawing I'm a writer, when writing a... drawer? That can't be right, I'm not a tall boy you know.

Ach, I'm mired in quag.

I missed your irony, I'm afraid, because, ironically enough, I *do* have something to say about art, and *have* been meaning to say it on here for a while.

As for your writing style, I think it's beautiful, and it reminds me of my hero (for want of a less tawdry word) Vivian Stanshall's. I play with words like a scientist, you do it like a lover (one of us stuck in the lab, the other... no, better not).

And thusfurtherly.

~jwf~