tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5020312682242461164.comments2022-10-29T00:55:14.019-07:00Hidden ThingsEric M. Edwardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11464329371478605627noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5020312682242461164.post-8051693679755870992013-04-11T01:22:25.895-07:002013-04-11T01:22:25.895-07:00Yep, LOVE it! Looks so much more interesting than ...Yep, LOVE it! Looks so much more interesting than typically laid tile.<br /><a href="http://mosaictiledirect.net/kitchen-dining.html" rel="nofollow">Split face Tile</a>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14065953403625312396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5020312682242461164.post-78264264510997472612012-11-20T07:49:37.984-08:002012-11-20T07:49:37.984-08:00http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jan/27/cities...http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jan/27/cities-classical-world-colin-mcevedy-reviewEric M. Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11464329371478605627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5020312682242461164.post-55836100541263409002012-11-20T02:07:38.705-08:002012-11-20T02:07:38.705-08:00I've been told never to respond to authors res...I've been told never to respond to authors responding to critics who are responding to authors who *may or may not and no one will ever know unless a breathalizer was utilized by court order on the night in question* be drunk at the time they were speaking.<br /><br />And I'm not a critic, just someone who was looking for a seat for an hour and some free rum.<br /><br />Otherwise, I'd say you have some fine points there. Deserving of their own post, even.<br /><br />Now I'll let you get back to grubbing up those root crops or wandering the forest collecting acorns or whatever it is you rural squires get up to when you're not farming 'rabbit tobacco.'Eric M. Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11464329371478605627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5020312682242461164.post-30637052398658051272012-11-19T09:26:46.392-08:002012-11-19T09:26:46.392-08:00But of course, I'll happily be derogatory abou...But of course, I'll happily be derogatory about cities. :)Mark Newtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04829431641572291176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5020312682242461164.post-69492643052307461632012-11-19T09:25:48.094-08:002012-11-19T09:25:48.094-08:00I like to think the notion of mine, that cities di...I like to think the notion of mine, that cities did not exist, were from two fairly strong angles of approach:<br /><br />1) That inherently cities did not exist as separate entities. That they came about from a collective expression of its people (or indeed people from other places) in architecture, design, politics and so on, as some emergent property; and that none of these things were, in fact, genuinely of the earth.<br /><br />2) That the city you see is not the city I see. So which one is the city?<br /><br />They were, admittedly, riffs on emptiness, but the point is worth making: what is this [insert city here] of which you speak? <br /><br />And this is not necessarily being deliberately provocative or derogatory about cities, but hopefully fertile grounds for further discussion. <br />Mark Newtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04829431641572291176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5020312682242461164.post-44945637202668353262012-08-20T05:58:31.882-07:002012-08-20T05:58:31.882-07:00Great execution of the idea! :)
Loved this line:...Great execution of the idea! :)<br /><br />Loved this line:<br /><br />"I bet they didn't guess they'd spend their lives in the loop and still be just as disconnected at the end."Berit Ellingsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16441202557032559399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5020312682242461164.post-56615621398450633132012-06-03T17:55:36.764-07:002012-06-03T17:55:36.764-07:00A beautiful poem. Thanks for posting it.A beautiful poem. Thanks for posting it.V.A. Jeffreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16313347342389218714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5020312682242461164.post-12197451084741969332012-03-01T13:55:58.667-08:002012-03-01T13:55:58.667-08:00Loved this!Loved this!Sciborg IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02790679151424543539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5020312682242461164.post-3808502004555664332012-01-16T21:05:04.046-08:002012-01-16T21:05:04.046-08:00I haven't gotten far into this, mind, but I mu...I haven't gotten far into this, mind, but I must say: my first drafts are not nearly this well-presented. The etchings from Piranesi are, of course, wonderfully evocative and atmospheric; it's a wonder I haven't seen a novel inspired by them before.Michalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02198881279554204600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5020312682242461164.post-59735742287990854292011-01-29T09:53:30.204-08:002011-01-29T09:53:30.204-08:00Sounds like an intriguing book. I'll have to ...Sounds like an intriguing book. I'll have to check it out. What you extrapolate from it reminds me a lot of Rousseau's First Discourse.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07448060787771911854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5020312682242461164.post-1176943422573462762011-01-06T07:12:13.821-08:002011-01-06T07:12:13.821-08:00Dear and much beloved Reader, welcome!
The majori...Dear and much beloved Reader, welcome!<br /><br />The majority are from Giovanni Battista Piranesi, with a special emphasis on his Imaginary Prisons sequence. They are to a degree, one of the major inspirations for the novel.<br /><br />Also featured are a few images from the Spanish-Mexican surrealist Remedios Varo and Alfred Kubin - both remarkable artists in their own right, whose phantasmic, dreamlike visions have coloured my efforts to bring the Invisible City to life.<br /><br />E.Eric M. Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11464329371478605627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5020312682242461164.post-46834425515880162112011-01-06T06:57:36.404-08:002011-01-06T06:57:36.404-08:00I've actually ended up with a book that I neve...I've actually ended up with a book that I never thought to write at all - one that's better (I strongly suspect) then the novel that I had originally planned.<br /><br />The project has developed at times a will and a momentum of its own. Verisimilitude, I know, but it feels that way when I have to occasionally pull "it" back from a direction that I did not intend nor envision. <br /><br />A lot has been forcibly un-written as well - thousands and thousands of words, descriptive passages, plot threads, and whole characters, thrown on the scented pyre to keep what remains of the book warm as we huddle 'round its blaze. Sacrifices must be made.<br /><br />All for the greatest good, I tell myself - and those unfortunate words.<br /><br />E.Eric M. Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11464329371478605627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5020312682242461164.post-37461175020105079042011-01-05T03:53:24.439-08:002011-01-05T03:53:24.439-08:00I was thinking about you the other day and wonderi...I was thinking about you the other day and wondering how things are going. Glad to hear progress is still being made. Your comment on editing becoming rewriting the whole book made me chuckle ... I can imagine that happening quite easily, especially with a first book. But I hope in the end you get the book you wanted to write all along :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5020312682242461164.post-88503401443335602452010-12-26T20:06:36.660-08:002010-12-26T20:06:36.660-08:00Hi, I've just discovered your blog via Mark Ch...Hi, I've just discovered your blog via Mark Charan Newton's. The excerpts you've posted are good reading, but I have a question: who is the illustrator of all of the images on this blog?<br /><br />Thanks . . .asdasdsdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03818360109511670073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5020312682242461164.post-85862049463932591332010-07-16T02:48:54.354-07:002010-07-16T02:48:54.354-07:00Good work :)
And good luck!Good work :)<br /><br />And good luck!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com