tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-128489391406278465.post650632310285859559..comments2024-03-28T07:49:07.693-04:00Comments on Lesser-Known Writers: Laverne GayDouglas A. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844859516228160123noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-128489391406278465.post-27610373432362624122013-12-01T19:26:15.323-05:002013-12-01T19:26:15.323-05:00[Final bit from Cline's essay:]
But where,...[Final bit from Cline's essay:] <br /><br /><br /><br />But where, gracious heaven, is the meaning, do you ask? It is there. And although music and color and odor may obscure it in part to many indolent readers they do but clarify it to others. The cadence or upspringing of the melody, the transfiguration of gold and scarlet and blue, give vital nuance to the stark words. <br /> It may be Douglas A. Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16844859516228160123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-128489391406278465.post-28914116263171380642013-12-01T19:25:45.538-05:002013-12-01T19:25:45.538-05:00[Continuing Leonard Cline's essay]:
It will ...[Continuing Leonard Cline's essay]: <br /><br />It will not take the clairvoyance of a critic to perceive that I am sensitive on this point. I am. The observations of the reviewers in regard to my own choice of words and patterns have not always been flattering. The clamor is somewhat subdued this fall in regard to The Dark Chamber but it persists. <br /> Harry Salpeter in The World Douglas A. Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16844859516228160123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-128489391406278465.post-86369536062004861632013-12-01T19:23:54.167-05:002013-12-01T19:23:54.167-05:00Thanks for writing in. One of my favorite writers...Thanks for writing in. One of my favorite writers, Leonard Cline, was accused of similar supposedly-bad habits, and wrote a marvelous essay entitled "Logodadely" in response. I'll quote some lengthy bits of it here: <br /><br />Language is essentially, I suppose, a cart. It is a means of conveying one man’s idea to another. I rather hate to admit it so baldly, but that at bottom Douglas A. Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16844859516228160123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-128489391406278465.post-23959969783920878312013-12-01T12:41:48.756-05:002013-12-01T12:41:48.756-05:00Wally Meyer wrote to my mother, Laverne Gay, an ed...Wally Meyer wrote to my mother, Laverne Gay, an editing note that complained of her vocabulary in "Wine of Satan." My favorite passage is, "I confess that there are places where I fairly ache for a simpler, less involved style, places where I want the narrative interest to gallop--and it's hard to gallop with a dictionary in one hand." Janis Gay<br />redbroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12295064863973031550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-128489391406278465.post-79080066350018188252012-12-31T13:05:34.691-05:002012-12-31T13:05:34.691-05:00Thanks very much for pointing this out. Thanks very much for pointing this out. Douglas A. Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16844859516228160123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-128489391406278465.post-87823553730712095292012-12-29T18:39:54.892-05:002012-12-29T18:39:54.892-05:00Janis Gay has an article about her family's ex...Janis Gay has an article about her family's experience here http://www.deathpenalty.org/article.php?id=271khughes1963https://www.blogger.com/profile/16118365554189078448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-128489391406278465.post-73732877082924805662012-11-23T13:18:16.250-05:002012-11-23T13:18:16.250-05:00I've corrected the typo you noted (Turing for ...I've corrected the typo you noted (Turing for Turin). The rest of what you write is very interesting. If Janis Gay has published something somewhere on her mother I'd be grateful to know the reference. In writing these entries I try to stay close to what facts I have gathered, and not to speculate, but anyone would think that seeing one's father executed would have a profound impact Douglas A. Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16844859516228160123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-128489391406278465.post-31916029466761209272012-11-22T18:35:25.716-05:002012-11-22T18:35:25.716-05:00Glad you wrote about Laverne Gay. I discovered &qu...Glad you wrote about Laverne Gay. I discovered "The Unspeakables" at my school library in my teens, and I have copies of it and of "Wine of Satan" in my personal library. One minor correction, Theudelinda's second husband was Duke Agilulf of Turin. Laverne's daughter Janis Gay has written that her mother never really took off in her writing career, in large part khughes1963https://www.blogger.com/profile/16118365554189078448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-128489391406278465.post-32519321586420881332012-11-01T13:35:37.899-04:002012-11-01T13:35:37.899-04:00Interestingly, the biographical note about her fat...Interestingly, the biographical note about her father is not mentioned in any account of Laverne Gay's writing career. I found a brief newspaper account of it. As to the rewel-bone saddle, I think it likely that Gay took the reference from Sir Thopas, which seems the likeliest place she might have encountered it. Skeat glossed the word as "(probably) ivory made from the teeth of Douglas A. Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16844859516228160123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-128489391406278465.post-4831029770469460752012-10-31T22:57:41.166-04:002012-10-31T22:57:41.166-04:00'Andrew Kels...was hanged for murder on 4 Janu...'Andrew Kels...was hanged for murder on 4 January 1924.'<br /><br />I'd have thought this worth looking at: a writer whose father was hanged when she was ten-years-old would surely be influenced by the event.<br />Is there any reason to think Gay knew what rewel-bone was? I don't think it would be possible to make a saddle of it- if it was walrus ivory- except in a parody of a Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com