on The Family---for possible discussion re Vineland/TRP

[Michael Bailey]

oops again, sorry John (and Robin), meant to send to list though unworthy

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> John Bailey wrote:
>
>>
>> Every dog has its family. A good dog might just have two families.
>>
>
> ooh, I like that
>
> probably have nothing nearly so good to add, but if I did
> it would be something like a Herbert Spencer quote,
> life is the continuous adaptation of inside to outside circumstances,
>
> and then something about GR and "we-systems" since one  has to define
> what inside and outside are...
>
> and then something about Linnaeus and how he and his botany students
> went frolicking and classifying wildlife into families
>
> and how if you project a world in a novel you focus on particular systems,
> and perhaps with experience you begin to see the importance and
> pervasivenes of the familial system in the reality you're holding up a
> mirror to,
>
> and finish with a quote from some New Yorker short story years ago
> that I can't remember the title of, but which had a line in it about
> how families are forgiving institutions with places in them for all
> sorts of oddballs and recuperations and deviancies...
>
> which is great for plot development among other  things
>
> --
>  - "yep, he'd murmur, still making stupid mistakes and how about
> yerself?" - Zoyd, p 24
>



-- 
 - "yep, he'd murmur, still making stupid mistakes and how about
yerself?" - Zoyd, p 24