For those who might be interested, the truth about the six statements:
The following five statements are mostly true, but contain one inaccuracy.
1 I made only two TV appearances, on a quiz show called 15to1.
2 The young woman in question was 17, not 18. Curiouser and curiouser!
3 It was the same finger that I broke twice, not a toe.
5 It wasn’t Harlem that I walked across, but the lower West Side - which I gather was just as hazardous in those days.
6 The warehouse wasn’t used to store dynamite, but butane gas containers. I’m making that incident the subject of my next post.
Number four was the wholly true one. She was somebody I knew during my time working at a theatre. She was an actress and stage director, as well as writing scripts for a popular Brit soap called Emmerdale.
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...until death do re-unite or the Priestess return to Avalon.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
The moving finger writes and, having writ, moves on. Nor all your piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears wash out a word of it.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self .
This character appears in one of my short stories, and also in the novel. He's sadder than he looks, poor thing.
About Me
- JJ
- Ashbourne, Derbyshire, United Kingdom
- I've never had money because I've never been driven by money. I received little formal education beyond the age of sixteen, which isn't such a bad thing since you get a different angle on life that way. Learning what you want and need to learn often reveals things that the system's road keeps hidden.
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Anyone interested in viewing the availablity of my novel Odyssey or novella The Gift Horse can do so here.
To Be Retained...
...until death do re-unite or the Priestess return to Avalon.
Khalil Gibran on Children.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
OMAR KAYYAM ON REGRET.
The moving finger writes and, having writ, moves on. Nor all your piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears wash out a word of it.
Herman Hess on Nobility
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self .
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I have another blog called A Handful of Stories on which I've posted some of my short fiction. Most of it has been published by a variety of independent small press publishers, so somebody other than me must have thought it worth reading.
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7 comments:
She was an astute scriptwriter. Twice on a quiz show, how cool.
Not really, Shay. I did it for fun, and it helped me to realise that knowing 'facts' really isn't all that important.
Very true about facts. A person can know five zillion facts and be the poorest conversationalist you'd ever want to meet. That, reminds me, in a backwards way, of a line in a Rickie Lee Jones song that cracks me up: ♪"My sister don't got much to say. Ask her about it."♪
Chuck 'ees in Love. Rave from the Grave! Good memories.
Well, now they're all true in essence, aren't they? Sounds like you've had many lives. I hope your actress/director friend is around to read this, oh, and your 17 year old friend, did she marry after all? Perhaps we'll come across them in one of your tales.
That's awesome- to be praised for your work by a professional! :)
Della: The 17-year-old was doing voluntary at the theatre. I never saw her again after that night. Maybe she retired for shame! Or maybe she was annoyed at my polite refusal. Don't know.
Lucy: Professional? Mm... Have you ever seen Emmerdale?!
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