Sinister: Because you're making brain-cakes fashionable

[Michael Ashbridge]

I have always thought that if I were to fall in love, it would be with a 
writer. 

I pictured an idyll where, as the evening gave way to night, she would read to 
me the words she had crafted that day, still experimenting with the language 
and glancing occasionally at my eyes for signs of reaction. 

And I would hang on her every word, watching lips move to form the sounds, 
struck dumb by her ability to put into words that which had existed for me only 
as vague thoughts, malformed knowledge, the "yes, I've felt that, but I was 
never able to see it with such clarity before" sensation. 

I'm thinking about this because I listened last night to Paul Auster waxing 
lyrical about his attitude to writing. He talked about the analogies between 
writing and acting, about his motivations and influences, his own novels and 
screenplays. 

As it's my first post, here's the link to the content: it was Murdoch's writing 
that first attracted me to Belle and Sebastian. The music came a close second. 
I bought If You're Feeling Sinister on a complete whim one afternoon, not 
knowing anything about them. And of course I'm not the only one to have 
experienced the immediate sensation that I was being spoken to. Overwhelming.

I was always tangentially aware that there existed internet groups in their 
orbit, but, being from Northern Ireland, I always considered myself too far 
removed to benefit from participation. Also burnt-out on various BBS/forums et 
cetera for a few years and unwilling to open up to more of the same.

This is a familiar sensation. Writing the first message to a new group. What to 
say. How to present. Experience teaches: f-ck it. I'll announce my addiction. 
My name is Michael, and I'm a bowlie. 

Hugs 'n' all to the McDermott girl for her sweet mentionables and being cute. A 
nod in the direction of Mr Chu for being other. Coy waves to the rest of you 
for being. 

+-+ Links +-+

- Listen to Radio 3's interview with Paul Auster (real player):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/speech/ram/anwauster.ram

- Read a review of Auster's latest novel, True Tales of American Life:
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/politicsphilosophyandsociety/0,6121,615034,0
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