tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post8399960191486128310..comments2023-06-21T18:53:11.897+10:00Comments on Pykk: a mellow manly voice, and great commandUmbagollahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14556344092820711893noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post-85545469340544287042016-08-06T14:41:47.588+10:002016-08-06T14:41:47.588+10:00It's a strange one. Greville bursting into tea...It's a strange one. Greville bursting into tears was unexpected. Umbagollahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556344092820711893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post-74834564478066615562016-08-04T07:43:51.418+10:002016-08-04T07:43:51.418+10:00These have been great. It's such an unusual b...These have been great. It's such an unusual book.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post-54458106208279138442016-08-04T01:22:46.798+10:002016-08-04T01:22:46.798+10:00That's a pretty accurate analogy. I'd defi...That's a pretty accurate analogy. I'd definitely call him a musical writer rather than a pictorial one; he doesn't "paint a scene," he arranges it or composes it or even choreographs it, out of hundreds of tiny movements. Then the letters are the larger movements, and the choreography there is phenomenal. He puts this all together and he makes himself vanish behind it -- he's not Fielding or Dickens, he doesn't assume that you're a friend that he can address directly: his opinion is there, everywhere, but he's not the one giving it to you. The structure is giving it to you, or the action is giving it to you, or you get it from Harriet admiring Grandison's clean teeth. Umbagollahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556344092820711893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post-32054382505723000402016-08-03T04:23:48.293+10:002016-08-03T04:23:48.293+10:00The way you describe the way this book is argued, ...The way you describe the way this book is argued, with an accumulation of facts and claims, reminds me of the way a lot of Baroque music is structured: cumulative movement of similar motivic forces, building and building with the drama mostly coming from ornamentation and increased complexity of presentation of the basic material, heading to a formal (rather than thematic) climax.<br /><br />"a monotonous hysteria of praise" is good, really good.scott g.f.baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05726743149139510832noreply@blogger.com