David Jones's Blog, page 1324
October 8, 2012
October 7, 2012
Not at all unlike how I imagine the town in The Travelling...
Not at all unlike how I imagine the town in The Travelling Circus of Lacrimosa.
"Hundreds of wide eyes, the eyes of something perhaps human, watched the man under the tree. Hungry..."
- Lilith’s Tears, Part I. My debut novel.
This is an extract from Pliny’s Natural History, written...
This is an extract fromPliny’s Natural History, written around AD 77 - and it still makes reference to Penny Royal as a cure for digestive complaints. Clearly, even in Roman times people would sit and drink pennyroyal tea, distill the life inside of them. I enjoy finding song references in ancient books immensely.
“I don’t know how many times I’ve killed Helena in films. Tim...
“I don’t know how many times I’ve killed Helena in films. Tim constantly has me killing his wife in his movies. I don’t know what that means.”
Original handwritten lyrics for L.A. Woman
Original handwritten lyrics for L.A. Woman
October 6, 2012
"I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I..."
- David Bowie (via beastglatisant)
More writing means more ink. My mum once humorously observed...
More writing means more ink. My mum once humorously observed that I was “going to have to sell a lot of books” to make up for the outlay in ink cartridges. This is true. Very true. Either way, the Blue Bricks Part I is now around 225 pages long - I reckon in about 90 more pages the first, handwritten draft will be finished completely and then the actual work aspect of things will have to begin.
