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Reed Stirling
My Irish heritage beyond 1838.
Reed Stirling
Believe you have something to say to those willing to listen. Persist regardless of rejection.
Reed Stirling
Exploring the human condition.
Reed Stirling
I would travel to the world James Joyce creates in "Ulysses" and follow either Stephen Daedalus or Leopold Bloom around, whomever I met first, and listen in on conversations going from pub to pub.
Shakespeare's world is full of attractions. I'd talk to various characters, Hamlet, for example, and have them explain how they got into such predicaments.
Shakespeare's world is full of attractions. I'd talk to various characters, Hamlet, for example, and have them explain how they got into such predicaments.
Reed Stirling
"Machines Like Me"
The Poems of Emile Nelligan (translation)
The Poems of Emile Nelligan (translation)
Reed Stirling
Two raisins go into a tavern, and they stay there all night with great expectation. "It was all about raisin the bar," Sultana explained.
Reed Stirling
by reading great works of Literature, by observing everyday people, by impulses to tell the truth of the human condition
Reed Stirling
Currently I am working on a fictional memoir set largely in Montreal, a many layered city. The protagonist is struggling to understand what his life has been and what lies ahead when his life is done. He is a product of the imagination, an Everyman.
Reed Stirling
I go back over what I've already written looking for keys. I try to visit, if not in actual fact, at least imaginatively the setting where the action came to a halt. Perhaps it is something one of my characters said that gets me going again. Writer's block is the way the mind says take a second look.
Reed Stirling
from travelling in Greece
reading L Durrell's "Alexandrian Quartet"
reading L Durrell's "Alexandrian Quartet"
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