tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post2771292412399796074..comments2024-02-13T10:20:04.888+00:00Comments on David Hepworth's blog: Aren't hand-written lyrics as reliable as fragments of the true cross?David Hepworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973053694541321308noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-78865952293752831462014-05-08T04:56:04.153+01:002014-05-08T04:56:04.153+01:00It looks ready to frame.It looks ready to frame.Andy Brimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01583748523594485211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-16068575037730352742014-05-01T17:13:56.259+01:002014-05-01T17:13:56.259+01:00In the novel "& Sons", by David Gilb...In the novel "& Sons", by David Gilbert, an ageing novelist based on Salinger painstakingly copies out his most famous novel, complete with "corrections", to provide a "manuscript" for a university archive. <br /><br />"It was impressive work, regardless of the dubious task, and after he finished he jumped right into the editing and took care to imbue his handwriting with as much youthful vigor as possible, striking the deliberately overblown words, refashioning the clumsy sentences, x'ing an entire wayward paragraph, and scribbling its correct version in the margin. This part was fun, almost like painting: [he] put red pencil to manuscript and gave his brushstrokes to the canvas – lines, arrows, swirls, in some cases well-practiced doodles, even a mysterious phone number for a man named Roberto Lupe, just for kicks."<br /><br />I see Bob's lyrics have some doodles, too...<br /><br />PKhttp://www.keers.co.uknoreply@blogger.com