*Edit: I should add that of course you will frequently find things highbrow and poetic elsewhere in Norm's Writer's Choice series, and indeed on his blog in general.
10 November 2009
Writer's Choice
My Writer's Choice is on normblog! Don't go there* expecting something highbrow or poetic. Although I wrestled with the idea of doing justice to various books that might make me look intelligent and cultured, I settled for what first came to mind: some of the first books I remember.
*Edit: I should add that of course you will frequently find things highbrow and poetic elsewhere in Norm's Writer's Choice series, and indeed on his blog in general.
*Edit: I should add that of course you will frequently find things highbrow and poetic elsewhere in Norm's Writer's Choice series, and indeed on his blog in general.
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Yes, "Twinkle, Twinkle" is not just anodyne but not really a nursery rhyme either, IMO. I only recall the version our science master taught us:
Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
I don't wonder what you are.
You're the cooling down of gases
Forming into solid masses.
I hate it with a passion! Such willed ignorance. I like your science master's version. We used to sing "Twinkle, twinkle little bat..."
I remember my mother's attempt to "wean" me, aged 7, from Enid Blyton. In our local Library which we visited religiously after swimming every Saturday afternoon. "Don't you dare bring another one home!" she said and meant it! Suitably cowed I picked up Dodie Smith's "I Capture the Castle" and Jean Plaidy's "St Thomas's Eve" and started lifelong passions for Tudor history and crumbling wrecks.
Perhaps we should all be grateful to the wretched woman despite her poor style.
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