For anyone out there who liked and is missing Serendipity, I'm resurrecting it, sort of. I want tweets of a magical realist nature addressed to me on Twitter (@neilayres) and I'll retweet the ones I like best. I'll also regularly include the very best in a post on this here blog, with a credit and short bio for the author. Poems and song lyrics are as welcome as prose.
Here're some examples of the kind of thing I mean:
The speaker is a little man, shrunken and bent, who seems to shrink and bend more and more every time anyone calls him
- Italo Calvino, If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller (Translated by William Weaver)
Troll brains do not hold many memories. Mostly their minds flicker and ripple like the glossy water in a forest tarn ruffled by the wind
- Kerstin Ekman, The Forest of Hours (Translated by Anna Paterson)
Holy ghosts and talk-show hosts are planted in the sand, to beautify the foothills and shake the many hands
- The Meat Puppets, Plateau
Along similar lines, you can address your veggiebook extracts to Aliya, and she'll no doubt do the same for the best quotes, breaches of copyright notwithstanding (@bluepootle)
Sunday, 12 July 2009
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This is a great post
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