From gammage.kennedy at gmail.com  Thu Nov 30 15:31:55 2017
From: gammage.kennedy at gmail.com (Kennedy Gammage)
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 15:31:55 -0800
Subject: [ilds] KNAUSGAARD MENTIONS LD
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I?ve been enjoying MIN KAMP thanks in part to Don Bartlett?s translation.
I?ve read BOOK 4, BOOK 1, and now near the end of BOOK 2 Karl Ove says
?Writing a novel is setting yourself a goal and then walking there in your
sleep ? Lawrence Durrell had once said that was what it was like, and it
was true.? Does anyone recognize the quotation?

Thanks - Ken
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From cls9k at virginia.edu  Thu Nov 30 17:38:10 2017
From: cls9k at virginia.edu (Charles Sligh)
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 20:38:10 -0500
Subject: [ilds] KNAUSGAARD MENTIONS LD
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Dear Ken:

That is a paraphrase of Pursewarden's advice to Clea.

?I can only tell you what I know, and it isn?t much. First you have to know
and understand intellectually what you want to do ? then you have to
sleep-walk a little to reach it."

*Clea* (II)


Be well!

Charles

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On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Kennedy Gammage <gammage.kennedy at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I?ve been enjoying MIN KAMP thanks in part to Don Bartlett?s translation.
> I?ve read BOOK 4, BOOK 1, and now near the end of BOOK 2 Karl Ove says
> ?Writing a novel is setting yourself a goal and then walking there in your
> sleep ? Lawrence Durrell had once said that was what it was like, and it
> was true.? Does anyone recognize the quotation?
>
> Thanks - Ken
>
>
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From delospeter at hotmail.com  Thu Nov 30 18:52:36 2017
From: delospeter at hotmail.com (PETER BALDWIN)
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 02:52:36 +0000
Subject: [ilds] KNAUSGAARD MENTIONS LD
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Well spotted, Charles, but I think Knaussgard quite misunderstood LD's quote which calls for us to recreate in art our unconscious - not to think it will come to us as some sleepy inspiration.

I am biased against Knaussgard - disliked vol 1 so much that I gave it and vol 2 (which I had ordered with vol 1) away pretty quickly. K seems to me to be one of those writers who take several pages to say what could and should be said in 1 para.


Peter

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On 1 Dec 2017, at 02:15, Charles Sligh <cls9k at virginia.edu<mailto:cls9k at virginia.edu>> wrote:

Dear Ken:

That is a paraphrase of Pursewarden's advice to Clea.

?I can only tell you what I know, and it isn?t much. First you have to know and understand intellectually what you want to do ? then you have to sleep-walk a little to reach it."

Clea (II)

Be well!

Charles

*****************************************
Charles L. Sligh
charles.sligh at virginia.edu<mailto:charles.sligh at virginia.edu>
Assistant Professor, General Faculty
Department of English
University of Virginia
*****************************************


On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Kennedy Gammage <gammage.kennedy at gmail.com<mailto:gammage.kennedy at gmail.com>> wrote:
I?ve been enjoying MIN KAMP thanks in part to Don Bartlett?s translation. I?ve read BOOK 4, BOOK 1, and now near the end of BOOK 2 Karl Ove says ?Writing a novel is setting yourself a goal and then walking there in your sleep ? Lawrence Durrell had once said that was what it was like, and it was true.? Does anyone recognize the quotation?

Thanks - Ken


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