tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post8027907861168947600..comments2024-03-24T02:21:53.258-07:00Comments on william morris unbound: Gossip on an Old BarnTony Pinkneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10044449613701140938noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-85185612503867174942015-02-17T00:17:59.239-08:002015-02-17T00:17:59.239-08:00Yes, I guess there are certain subjects which suit...Yes, I guess there are certain subjects which suit the genre of gossip, and others that just don't. A 'Gossip on the Charlie Hebdo Killings' would have a very strange ring to it, after all. On another tack - the literary celebration of barns - we might want to bring Virginia Woolf's 'Between the Acts' in here too; for it contains that 'Barn, the Noble Barn, the barn that had been built over seven hundred years ago', in the grounds of Pointz Hall (p.61, Penguin edition)Tony Pinkneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10044449613701140938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-37397754419167496892015-02-15T00:46:36.855-08:002015-02-15T00:46:36.855-08:00Tony, there is also a "Gossip on Romance"...Tony, there is also a "Gossip on Romance" by Robert Louis Stevenson, available online at https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/stevenson/robert_louis/s848mp/chapter15.html. So it seems that the "gossip" is a quaint old nineteenth-century genre we've completely lost sight of in our more hurried times!Koticknoreply@blogger.com