Archive for September, 2006
Theft: Love Story by Peter Carey
September 24th, 2006 books
Interview with Peter Carey on his new novel Theft: A love story.
The birth of a character is not merely a portraiture in a blank piece of paper. This can be done but the character lacks meat, lacks bone structure, lacks mind and soul. To birth a human being in a paper world, one needs to pray hard and as a mother gives blood and labour to birth a child, the writer gives the false human a bit of his own blood and labour. In very good novels, the author buries himself in a ficticious world, borrowing a tic, the income, dressing, manners, setting, experience, friends from others around him to make up the main character. This gives the sense of a heart beat, a soul. The problem with the above is that one
Ye – Yan: Night Banquet
September 24th, 2006 screen
Ye Yan invokes the same feeling the first time I walked into Ma Maison: it
Butley 2006
September 18th, 2006 theatre
Butley, with Nathan Lane, Hits the Booth in October
Blasted! Some theatre company should put up Butley in Singapore.
Shou Tao/
September 2nd, 2006 Uncategorized
For my brother C, who was not here:
Over the weekend, I splurged on Japanese imported peaches, pretending they were Shou Tao for my father’s birthday gift. I hinted at the gift,
