tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post8758739742597807103..comments2024-03-24T02:21:53.258-07:00Comments on william morris unbound: Return of the NativeTony Pinkneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10044449613701140938noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-63583088916573476482016-01-24T14:15:29.203-08:002016-01-24T14:15:29.203-08:00Ursula Le Guin writes in The Dispossessed: "Y...Ursula Le Guin writes in The Dispossessed: "You can go home again (...) so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.”Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03967901228424471572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-83794298477076776992015-10-07T07:46:58.617-07:002015-10-07T07:46:58.617-07:00After-thought: I suspect that, when Morris is at h...After-thought: I suspect that, when Morris is at his most interesting, one "returns" in his work either as a ghost or as a monster (see my post for 19 August 2015 on the latter notion in WM's writings).Tony Pinkneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10044449613701140938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-88893023890450697182015-10-06T00:32:49.188-07:002015-10-06T00:32:49.188-07:00Thanks for the intriguing Beckett "return&quo...Thanks for the intriguing Beckett "return" quote - I'll have to look that story up. For an excellent academic study on all matters to do with literary sequels, see 'Part Two: Reflections on the Sequel', edited by Paul Budra and Betty Schellenberg (University of Toronto Press, 1999). Can't remember offhand whether it mentions Jackie Collins, though!Tony Pinkneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10044449613701140938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-1698211315255823632015-10-05T06:27:40.926-07:002015-10-05T06:27:40.926-07:00I cannot see how the intellectual challenge of liv...I cannot see how the intellectual challenge of lively sequel-writing to Morris’s own text can happen now that Jackie Collins has diedJaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-57428606344937803582015-10-03T07:01:22.969-07:002015-10-03T07:01:22.969-07:00If we want words for William Guest after his retur...If we want words for William Guest after his return to the 1890s, Tony, perhaps we couldn't do better than borrow Samuel Beckett's, from 'The Calmative': "I wasn't returning empty-handed, not quite, I was taking back with me the virtual certainty that I was of this world, of that world too, in a way. But I was paying the price".Koticknoreply@blogger.com