When I made the decision to stop sending out my writing to 'third parties' and only publish here, instead, I suppose that I was taking a little bit of a gamble, but not really, to be honest with you. You make decisions based, typically, on a number of perspectives. One was out of sheer fucking boredom with the scene, if the truth were to be known. Seriously, I mean, particularly here in the IRP.
The way that woke has been digested here, hook line and sinker, is simply astonishingly bad. But then, are you really surprised? Respectability has always been a major factor here, and you can go back as far as you want. Personally, I tend to stop at Dubliners ( 1914), so that's already over 100 years ago!... Let that sink in...
My favourite word taken from that buke would be 'paralysis', which appears in the opening paragraph of the very first story The Sisters. I mean, has anything really fundamentally changed in the Irish psyche since the publication of that buke, I don't really think so. Do you?
Anyway, let's not get into all that...
So, what I really wanted to say here is how touched I am that the counter up in the top left hand corner is approaching 80 000 hits. That's quite a bit, enough to merit comment and I want to thank you. Whoever you are!
Baudelaire, as ever, is still top dog with my transversion of his wonderful sonnet Sisina, and which I have transversed as Wonder Woman, is now approaching 10 000 hits... Jesus! That is truly fucking remarkable. And it says everything about Charles Baudelaire and his timeless bloody appeal. Fuck woke! and the so called 'male gaze'! The bloody horse shit we have to put up with ....!
Next comes Charlie again with my post announcing the AF 200th anniversary celebration that we had online with all those wonderful contributors worldwide... 619 hits. Then, A une passante, again Baudelaire, my transversion which I dedicated to R.J. Dent, the poet and translator, comes in at ... Oops! Sorry, beaten by Celine - my essay on Villon with a not to Beckett 355, the Baudelaire poem hit 326...
Some contemporary writers who score high; Daniel Wade 298 ( my review of his novel Land without Wolves), the Tunisian poet Dorsaf Garbaa ( my transversions of her poem Biography) 254, and the Canadian writer Marc de Severio, again at over 200 hits for his Crita Di Volta.
The essay of Heidegger and Dasein and some of my Beckett articles also feature quite highly, again all hitting above 200. So, a wide and distinct line of interest. Many thanks to you all again!
So, this is to just inform you that my first novel The Fetishist is finally finished ( 90 000 words) and I will be sending it out to agents next week. I have also just started on the sequel The Drinker and there is a plan to write a third and final novel in the trilogy which will be The Suicide. That's it for now, this trilogy is now currently in progress...
Hope to see you all back here soon again!