Gadget Archive 2

Writers on Writing
“The difference between the almost right word & the right word is really a large matter--it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
Mark Twain

Nice Openings
“Boys are playing basketball around a telephone pole with a backboard bolted to it. Legs, shouts. The scrape and snap of Keds on loose alley pebbles seems to catapult their voices high into the March air blue above the wires. Rabbit Angstrom, coming up the alley in a business suit, stops and watches, though he’s twenty-six and six three.”
From John Updike’s novel Rabbit Run

RasoirJ’s Movie Notes
Cheri (2009) **
The great Michelle Pfeiffer cannot save this effete concoction. Emotions of courtesan class in Belle Epoque too big a leap for mid-class Americans. R. Friend as Cheri exudes callowness but lacks pizzazz.

Favorite Words
Gossoon – an Irish lad, often a servant boy and messenger. “I was a strapping young gossoon at that time, I tell you.” From Joyce’s Ulysses

Blog of Week
Paulo Coelho’s Blog
He blogs, he tweets, he Facebooks, he publishes in his own books in pirate versions. Paulo Coelho is a big-time Brazilian novelist who sees writing as a communal art form.