duke_aldhein ([info]duke_aldhein) wrote,
@ 2006-02-19 14:37:00
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This so-called concern with human rights, that bombs the hell out of the citizens of Kosovo or Baghdad, ignores so many things. Above all, the ingenuity with which people manage somehow to live, and help each other survive. And this ingenuity is very close to what I mean by tenderness.
(John Berger, interviewed in the Daily Telegraph, 23rd July 2001)

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[info]peregrinuscanus
2006-02-28 02:40 pm UTC (link)
Hi, hope it's okay to Friend you. I was LJ-hopping and your list of interests included a good many of mine (though I don't always list them all on my LJ) - I grew up in Sheffield, and live near Teesdale, and love Aidan Chambers and Nick Cave, and theology.

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[info]duke_aldhein
2006-03-05 07:21 pm UTC (link)
Howdie, wanderer! That sounds like a fine batch of mutual interests, and I'm always glad of new friends. You may find posts a bit thin on the ground for the next while, though, as I'm diving like a submarine into the second draft of the book I'm trying to write.

Aidan Chambers' novels kept me afloat at a time in my late teens when I might otherwise have gone under. What do they mean to you? Do you have a favourite from the series?

And what do you do near Teesdale? (I get occasional urges to go and live up there again, though Sheffield has its teeth well sunken into me.)

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[info]peregrinuscanus
2006-03-08 10:47 am UTC (link)
Thanks for the welcome! I'm also trying to write a first draft of my second book (not that I've got the first published yet!)

I agree on Aidan Chambers - I read "Dance on My Grave" when I was 13, which inspired me to be a writer really. I didn't read the others until the last twelve years or so when they became more available in shops/Amazon; then I got "Postcards..." when it was published, and "this is all" the day it was published. I think my favourite is, er, almost too hard to choose. When I recommend his books to others, I suggest "Now I Know", and then probably "Postcards" second. I was profoundly affected by "this is all" - it seemed in some ways a reflection of the person I was (not that I had all the experiences that Cordelia did!) For nostalgia, I still like Dance on My Grave; I ought to re-read "The Toll Bridge" and "Breaktime". When we going walking up by Richmond to the Willance's Leap monument, I always tell my family this is where Ditto and Helen (is it Helen?) spent the night in their tent. I think these books mean the world to me really! No-one else's work has affected me so much, or such that I identify with them so much, or want to write for that age-group myself so much!

What I do near Teesdale is live in it - and raise a family in it - and try to write a book for late teens/adults that will get published.

I don't post much in my LJ either!

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