Comments on: The consultant in the fruit box http://matlarkin.com/2005/06/01/consultant-fruit-box/ Mon, 08 Jun 2009 01:23:45 +0000 hourly 1 By: matlarkin.com » A Conspiracy of Feathered Simpletons, Part One - all great novels are blogged. http://matlarkin.com/2005/06/01/consultant-fruit-box/comment-page-1/#comment-78 matlarkin.com » A Conspiracy of Feathered Simpletons, Part One - all great novels are blogged. Fri, 12 Aug 2005 05:12:04 +0000 http://matlarkin.com/19/#comment-78 [...] A few months ago I reported in these pages that through a series of unfortunate circumstances my editorial consultant had to be confined to the house for reasons of prophylactic hygiene. Consequently, he and I have spent the daylight hours of the last eleven weeks like a pair of isolated lighthouse keepers, which is to say composing sea shanties, threatening to murder each other and periodically going mad. [...] […] A few months ago I reported in these pages that through a series of unfortunate circumstances my editorial consultant had to be confined to the house for reasons of prophylactic hygiene. Consequently, he and I have spent the daylight hours of the last eleven weeks like a pair of isolated lighthouse keepers, which is to say composing sea shanties, threatening to murder each other and periodically going mad. […]

]]> By: matlarkin.com » The Information Super-Savannah - all great novels are blogged. http://matlarkin.com/2005/06/01/consultant-fruit-box/comment-page-1/#comment-31 matlarkin.com » The Information Super-Savannah - all great novels are blogged. Sun, 19 Jun 2005 05:11:47 +0000 http://matlarkin.com/19/#comment-31 [...] 217;t need to, because instead I’m going to say that it is building a cat-house. My editorial consultant, for reasons which don’t need elaborating here, has to be isolated from physical contact with [...] […] 217;t need to, because instead I’m going to say that it is building a cat-house. My editorial consultant, for reasons which don’t need elaborating here, has to be isolated from physical contact with […]

]]> By: James http://matlarkin.com/2005/06/01/consultant-fruit-box/comment-page-1/#comment-21 James Thu, 02 Jun 2005 11:57:09 +0000 http://matlarkin.com/19/#comment-21 But at the very least you won't be given a mark out of 20 and told to try harder... will you? But at the very least you won’t be given a mark out of 20 and told to try harder… will you?

]]> By: mat http://matlarkin.com/2005/06/01/consultant-fruit-box/comment-page-1/#comment-20 mat Thu, 02 Jun 2005 11:48:23 +0000 http://matlarkin.com/19/#comment-20 In my world, James, 2,000 words is about seven pages. The thought of saying anything significant in only seven pages fills me with cold, Neapolitan dread. So far, trying to say something significant has taken me 308 pages, and counting. You have, I can safely advise, the harder job. In my world, James, 2,000 words is about seven pages. The thought of saying anything significant in only seven pages fills me with cold, Neapolitan dread.

So far, trying to say something significant has taken me 308 pages, and counting.

You have, I can safely advise, the harder job.

]]> By: James http://matlarkin.com/2005/06/01/consultant-fruit-box/comment-page-1/#comment-19 James Thu, 02 Jun 2005 09:22:23 +0000 http://matlarkin.com/19/#comment-19 I am currently struggling with a 2000 word essay about nothing. I don't *really* envy you anymore :o) I am currently struggling with a 2000 word essay about nothing. I don’t *really* envy you anymore :o)

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