tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post2243159912171336739..comments2024-03-16T16:28:06.374+13:00Comments on The Imaginary Museum: Gothic Reviewer review'dDr Jack Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01805945600952222957noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-80150661234856537502007-03-05T12:44:00.000+13:002007-03-05T12:44:00.000+13:00-- Katherine, delighted to have my blog hijacked (...-- Katherine, delighted to have my blog hijacked (pun intended) -- makes a change from hearing only the booming of my own hollow voice around the corridors of this particular annex of cyberspace (what do you know, I really am overwrought ...)<BR/><BR/>-- Martin, great that you have managed to dropin for a visit. I wish I could share the emails, but I fear that might disrupt the perilous equilibrium of my truce with Mr Wood ...Dr Jack Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01805945600952222957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-38767791031092660122007-03-04T22:56:00.000+13:002007-03-04T22:56:00.000+13:00hey, jack - only seem to visit the imaginary museu...hey, jack - only seem to visit the imaginary museum on sundays (just like the real ones) but this is funny - both yr review of the review & the review; & especially the comments stream. will you publish the emails to & fro with Mr Wood (please?)? my only other point is to mention the file name I had my contrib under for the five years between then & then: go-thick, I called it.Martin Edmondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15703987223264531057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-37728553440599273212007-03-03T14:47:00.000+13:002007-03-03T14:47:00.000+13:00Hi Jack.I was puzzled by where he was taking the r...Hi Jack.<BR/><BR/>I was puzzled by where he was taking the review - like you, I found the internal contradictions detracted from some of the points he was trying to make - but yeah, I quite liked the bit about being overwrought too... <BR/><BR/>..irresistable image of the poem standing there in the moonlight on a dangerous clifftop, one hand to its heaving bosom, overly ornate bodice ripped by blackberry - <BR/><BR/>tee heeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-40315503534201960582007-03-03T11:31:00.000+13:002007-03-03T11:31:00.000+13:00A rare triumph of diplomacy. This example offers h...A rare triumph of diplomacy. This example offers hope for reviewer-and-review-reviewer relations everywhere!<BR/><BR/>(I should say, though, that despite the apparent insanity of the boat venture, we are actually taking multiple precautions and proceeding very slowly and cautiously. So will probably not sink.)<BR/><BR/>Anyway, sorry for hi-jacking your blog like this. Just pleased to find it in a random session of clicking the 'next-blog' button.Katherine Dolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01831799082347506550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-40586859703527455702007-03-03T11:04:00.000+13:002007-03-03T11:04:00.000+13:00I know enough about boats (a bit of recreational y...I know enough about boats (a bit of recreational yachting around the Hauraki Gulf) to have considerable respect for their dangers: storms, rocks, waves, etc.<BR/><BR/>Coming back to the review, though, I've just been having some email correspondence with its author which I think has left us a little clearer on our respective positions ... we both agree that we were a little patronising in tone, but we also agree on the necessity to make a big noise from time to time to remind people that one still exists.<BR/><BR/>So please don't take any risks out there at sea -- I'd so much rather you were both out and about in the world of phenomena than in some icy translucent tomb at the bottom of the Northwest passage ...Dr Jack Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01805945600952222957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-64333264110809969362007-03-02T14:15:00.000+13:002007-03-02T14:15:00.000+13:00OK, I will go along with that: Australia can be Gr...OK, I will go along with that: Australia can be Greece and since my original name was Liddy I will be the Tyrant of Liddya and threaten the Hellenes with my army of effeminate yet deadly barbarians. <BR/><BR/>Luckily our boat's engine is not yet working properly. Otherwise no doubt John and I would both be making panicked navigational decisions in the middle of the Bering Sea. As it is, she is floating harmlessly in a scenic bay where otters and seals frolick around her frighteningly large hull.<BR/><BR/>You wouldn't happen to know anything about boats, would you?Katherine Dolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01831799082347506550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-62937183460741001612007-03-02T10:13:00.000+13:002007-03-02T10:13:00.000+13:00Oops. Mea maxima culpa. Well, thanks for taking it...Oops. Mea maxima culpa. Well, thanks for taking it like that, anyway. I think most people would be taking out a fatwah right now for my strictures on your mythic homeland ...<BR/><BR/>Yeah, the Australians are very into those Greek comparisons. Les Murray had a whole thing going on expats (such as Peter Porter) being Athenians, and dyed-in-the-wool slobs (such as himself) being Boeotians.<BR/><BR/>If they're Greeks, though, I think that must make us Macedonians ... or maybe Ionians. That'd suit me best, I think ... Auckland could be Samos and the mainland Lydia.<BR/><BR/>Hope the poetry is going well, and that John hasn't stranded you on a lee-shore as yet ...Dr Jack Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01805945600952222957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-31274690273276084702007-03-02T08:25:00.000+13:002007-03-02T08:25:00.000+13:00Ha ha! The South Islander was ME (sorry, should ha...Ha ha! The South Islander was ME (sorry, should have introduced myself -- Katherine Dolan here, chronically uptight and opinionated spouse of JD).<BR/><BR/>Rem acu tetigisti; Aucklanders are a much more attractive people. We are a terse, suspicious, unyielding lot. 'Tis our charm. I am planning to use South Islanders as models for a story about ancient Spartans. I doubt if Athenians were relaxed enough to be compared with Aucklanders though. Maybe you're a bunch of Lesbians (just kidding, Aucklanderz rule).Katherine Dolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01831799082347506550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-44954448843011423462007-03-01T20:34:00.000+13:002007-03-01T20:34:00.000+13:00I think I would be flattering myself if I claimed ...I think I would be flattering myself if I claimed it to be the latter -- the former is as high as I can soar, I fear ... "damning with faint praise" is, I suppose, the intention. I'd still buy the guy a drink if he happened by, though ... no hard feelings. I like being overwrought ...<BR/><BR/>Enjoyed the anecdote on your blog about the conversation with the expat Kiwi, by the way: I could hear that deadpan South Island voice refusing to give an inch ... Aucklanders are much more relaxed.Dr Jack Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01805945600952222957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-83434487262585022542007-03-01T08:49:00.000+13:002007-03-01T08:49:00.000+13:00Elegant review-of-review. I have identified its TK...Elegant review-of-review. I have identified its TKO rhetorical figure as ennoia. Or is it paromologia?<BR/><BR/>http://www.figarospeech.com/terms/Katherine Dolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01831799082347506550noreply@blogger.com