Return from Erebus Julia McCarthy, Brick Books, 2010
Although I had not been there before, I have gone and returned through the reading of Julia's new book. Perfect as white, every phrase a surprise. A food so perfect you meet the end of hunger. 'Its memory is porcelain it dreams albino / it's the colour of a promise / before it's broken ... if you touch it you'll know absence / so profound you won't feel a thing'. We should all be so lucky that each of our phrases and poems are so touchable and so unreleasable. Soft, sure, an extensive vocabulary so broad it extends into perfectly apt neologisms and when one of these does not exist, she invents a word you find you have always… Read more
I bought the Flip Ultra, 3rd generation, for work use.
It certainly is very easy to use.
When you first set up the time/calendar and so on, take your time, as it is easy to jump through and leave a mistake. I could not find a way back into it.
It is best to be stationary and using a one foot 'tripod' as hand shake definitely is an issue if you are moving. I used the Flip in a boat, and at speed, the image skipped, making all what I shot unusable - except for extracting stills. I use this for a work purpose as I write for magazines and do e-pubs.
My camera's on/off button broke on the second day of use, so not so good. On the other hand, when I… Read more
The introduction tells you what the book will be about on pages 14 - 16: Chap 1 is brain conditions that increase desire to write; Chap 2 is about how the temporal lobes drive both writing and writers block; Chap 3 is writers block psychology; Chap 4 is biochemical explanations and treatments of block; Chap 5 is the new science brought to bear on 'normal' desire to write, and writerly things like metaphor; Chap 6 is about how the drive to communicate pushes writing (oh, sure); and Chap 7 argues that metaphoric thinking is a temporal lobe function and mediates most types of establishing meaning.
Chapter two transmits a good understanding of the neurobiological base of the desire… Read more
