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Comment on America by Richard

Richard — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:20:16 +0000

Cheri is right about positive outcomes, Narelle, but I reflect with horror on the callous disregard of those in Britain who could have acted to relieve the suffering in the potato famine and on how they ignored pleas from the more compassionate.

If immorality is a measure of the suffering that flows from an act or a failure to act, then that sorry neglect must be a defining case study.

Comment on America by solidgoldcreativity

solidgoldcreativity — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:17:07 +0000

And I wasn’t even fully aware they were blanks! Now I’m plumping for discovering what it was that brought them to Australia from America.

Comment on America by solidgoldcreativity

solidgoldcreativity — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:13:02 +0000

Hi Cheri, thank you for being moved by these posts. Love what you say about honesty and sad facts and the absence of blame and excuses. I hadn’t thought of the latter. Perhaps that’s another reason I find it so moving.

Comment on America by Thomas Stazyk

Thomas Stazyk — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:36:28 +0000

Great post–I think every family has a fascinating history and too much of it is lost and/or taken for granted. Glad you could fill in some missing blanks!

Comment on America by Cheri

Cheri — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:39:50 +0000

Hi Narelle,
Oh, I love these posts with tender family details and history. The quotation with its honesty and sad facts bespeaks of a day in human history long gone, one where blame and excuses were not part of the solution.

People suffered mightily in those days.

The Irish potato famine (another chapter in the book of human suffering) had one positive outcome: the Irish coming to America and contributing so much–of which your family members were a part.

Marvelous post. ( You can tell the storyteller in me is most attracted to these types..)

Thank you for sharing this one.

Comment on The writer’s necessary (2) by solidgoldcreativity

solidgoldcreativity — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:56:02 +0000

I’m back at -68. So glad you brought your clever interpreter along.

Comment on The photograph not taken by solidgoldcreativity

solidgoldcreativity — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:54:54 +0000

yes, the world needs more dandyism today! And more clogs …

Comment on The writer’s necessary (2) by solidgoldcreativity

solidgoldcreativity — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:50:17 +0000

Very good, my friend, and very ambiguous. You are a woman after Derrida’s own punning heart. For the analogy to be exact the leakage would need to be signal or signal+noise, not noise only …

Comment on The writer’s necessary (2) by dafna

dafna — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:51:13 +0000

hi Narelle,

i was just making a weak attempt/pun at “deliberate ambiguity” by leaving out the antecedent. it seems to have worked, since “nobody got it” ;) (my joke)

richard’s analogy “needs more words”, but it is very clever.

the writer is the “transmitter” of meaning through words which float invisibly like the oscillating radio wave until it meets the reader or “receiver”.

also the “resonator” found in a radio, tunes into the meaning/waves so that certain frequencies are amplified and heard and others are ignored. a resonator is adjustable and there is also some leakage involved… a very good extended analogy?

perhaps? shrug gallic style.

Comment on The writer’s necessary (2) by Richard

Richard — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:26:25 +0000

Or maybe not.