tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post8465576057048060607..comments2023-10-25T05:30:54.507-04:00Comments on Oh Get A Grip!: Wabi Sabi Girl: A Story of UtopiaAshe Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03390519279886657608noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-90729805562897168322012-05-03T21:52:05.446-04:002012-05-03T21:52:05.446-04:00Hi Jean!
Uma Thurman is sort of skinny and flat c...Hi Jean!<br /><br />Uma Thurman is sort of skinny and flat chested but she has that weird energy that makes her interesting. Its exactly that flawed beauty. Uma Thurman is Robert Thurman's little girl, the great Buddhist scholar and lecturer.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />When you have a chance, google images for "Frank Frazetta women". Frazetta was the greatest of the fantasy illustrators. He did a lot of book covers, and his primitive women have this very flawed quality, a kind of lumpiness which seems to come from a combination of female fat and savagely powerful muscle. They are sexy as hell.<br /><br />GarceGarceushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11160407485298015371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-53600624828346853182012-05-03T21:45:49.711-04:002012-05-03T21:45:49.711-04:00Hi Fiona!
Well flaws can make or break a marriage...Hi Fiona!<br /><br />Well flaws can make or break a marriage. I think you;re lucky. So much of marriage is about friendship and learning to love or work around the flaws. LIke Henry in the story I've always found myself much eroticised by the physical flaws of women, the way women really look, as compared to teh idealized look of women on TV or in Playboy. Natural women are very erotic.<br /><br />THese aren't the original Henry and June but there's definately a connection. I admired the intensity between Henry Miller and Anais Nin (June was Miller's wife, not Nin.) People like that who are intensely passionate about each other can hardly stand to be under teh same roof together, they eat each other up. I was trying to get a sense of that. Henry and June was only the working title but since I only had a couple of hours to write it I just plastered the names on and keep running.<br /><br />Still waiting to read your novel which I have on my ereader. Thank you!<br /><br />GarceGarceushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11160407485298015371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-29222791001635081122012-05-03T21:40:08.790-04:002012-05-03T21:40:08.790-04:00Hi Lisabet!
The original post i was going to writ...Hi Lisabet!<br /><br />The original post i was going to write was probably more like what you may have expected in that I intended to write a summary of my thoughts about Utopia. But I wanted to challenge myself at the last possible moment. I'm trying to find a way back to the old creativity I felt, and maybe yourself too, with that beginners mind we start with. I've been reading a lot of Anais Nin and she credits her obsessive diary writing as the source of her creativity. I'm fascinated by her erotica style and would like to learn it. So I'm noodling a lot and I'm trying to challenge myself to write stories from random elements whenever possible. Consequently I wrote this whole thing with my eye on teh clock Monday night and Tuesday morning. That's why there's so many nits and klutzy mistakes in it. Talk about Wabi Sabi - I accidently chopped out a whole paragraph and didn;t notice it till now! That's why Henry talks about a condom ("What condom?") because the paragraph about his unfaithfulness was accidently deleted. The funny thing is the idea works better that way because you have to think about it. Sort of serendipitous Wabi Sabi . . .<br /><br />GarceGarceushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11160407485298015371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-27859154872827887302012-05-03T13:50:16.627-04:002012-05-03T13:50:16.627-04:00I agree. This is brilliant. I visualize Uma Thurma...I agree. This is brilliant. I visualize Uma Thurman from the movie as June in your piece. Like many actors, she looks striking but not beautiful in a conventional way.Jean Robertahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08805088081675965859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-64975054048271953012012-05-02T15:46:08.915-04:002012-05-02T15:46:08.915-04:00This seems to be a familiar refrain with you, Garc...This seems to be a familiar refrain with you, Garce, that women are interesting to men not for their beauty, but for their flaws. I had not heard about the flaws deliberately put into art, but that's a good analogy.<br /><br />When you fall in love, you think your beloved has no flaws.<br /><br />When you progress to loving that person, you think you love him/her in spite of his/her flaws.<br /><br />But when you really love someone, you love them BECAUSE of his/her flaws because without the imperfections, it wouldn't be the person you love.<br /><br />My husband once told me he didn't care how many men I had before him, as long as I didn't have any after him. How can you not love a man like that? He didn't ask for perfection but offered acceptance. In return he has me for the rest of his life. I hope he's happy, because I am.<br /><br />P.S. Is this supposed to be THE Henry and June, as in Henry Miller and his paramour? Wasn't there a movie about them? Or did you choose the names as an homage to them?Fiona McGierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13495707848048468428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-39486949904061558122012-05-02T06:40:22.592-04:002012-05-02T06:40:22.592-04:00Oh, Garce,
Week after week I struggle to come up ...Oh, Garce,<br /><br />Week after week I struggle to come up with a comment that's even worthy of your post. <br /><br />This is brilliant and despite appearances, brilliantly on topic.<br /><br />But not at all what I expected.Lisabet Saraihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05162514190572269660noreply@blogger.com