tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9055056.post3689680553719829821..comments2023-06-20T04:28:32.298-07:00Comments on The Lost Notebook: Lost without rational explanationBill Herberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06993604756613831692noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9055056.post-33588513454403828702009-04-02T06:21:00.000-07:002009-04-02T06:21:00.000-07:00Maybe I should put a price on mine retrospectively...Maybe I should put a price on mine retrospectively? I suppose it's possible that someone out there is holding it and just hasn't got round to writing the ransom note. (No, it isn't.)Bill Herberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06993604756613831692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9055056.post-70605425134354801232008-12-17T00:56:00.000-08:002008-12-17T00:56:00.000-08:00Did your notebook have an offer of reward written ...Did your notebook have an offer of reward written in the front? The large Moleskines have a space where you can enter (in dollars) an estimate of the thing's value to you. Mine are currently on the reward market for 100 bucks. But I'm wondering whether they are over-valued.Charles Fernyhoughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04077012181124807825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9055056.post-33652069243357794442008-09-30T07:59:00.000-07:002008-09-30T07:59:00.000-07:00Posted by BH on behalf of Isobel Dixon:Checking an...Posted by BH on behalf of Isobel Dixon:<BR/><BR/>Checking and rechecking (even in your dreams)<BR/><BR/>… for that lost notebook. Ah, I’ve been there. Forgive this intrusion in your daily life, and don’t feel that this email needs a response, but I’ve just hopped from Gairspace to Bill Herbert-in-space to the terrifying tragedy of the lost notebook. I’ve used your academic email as I haven’t yet succumbed to Facebook (I have long resisted, but am about to crumble, now all my family and friends are on, and every poetry event of note gets listed there, so that people no longer bother to send emails…. It’s like being the polar bear floating off on that chunk of ice broken off from the rest, being Faceless….)<BR/><BR/>Anyhow, as a poet and literary agent, I also carry a notebook all the time – the 24/7 day job from front to middle, and the poetry notes from the back to the middle, Hebrew fashion, though I don’t write right to left, yet. I can always tell how much or little time I’ve spent on poetry from where the two worlds’ notes meet…<BR/><BR/>I’m just back from reading at Bristol Poetry Festival, but my own lost notebook incident was a couple of years ago, on the train back from the Edinburgh Festival. It still hurts. It was a rich August, the time in Edinburgh following ten days in Germany, a ten-year reunion with friends from around the world who I’d studied with in Edinburgh. So not only work and poetry jottings, but the fruits of holiday reading in the Black Forest, annotations of odd and interesting conversations with my friends from Japan, Germany, the US, the West Bank, their transcriptions of family recipes, some realisations about how we change. Several incubating poems. And I must have left it on the train. Of course, I checked and rechecked, Lost Property, the Police, hoped someone would read the address details and phone number on the inside front cover and return it to me, but no. I suspect it slipped down the side of the seat and the cleaner swept it into one of those capacious plastic rubbish bags, and it’s long been landfill.<BR/><BR/>Unlike you, I made no attempt at recollection or recreation – the very thought of trying to delve back was so infuriating and frustrating that I simply tried to wipe out the memory of all the observations and drafts and potential poems there. And then you go reminding me…<BR/><BR/>*<BR/><BR/>As for my notebook: no Moleskines for me. Standard issue Viking (as in the office supplier, not as in 'The Song of the Longboat Boys') A5 hardback lined notebooks (must have lines), with some postcard (usually of some artwork or a photo, and must be portrait orientation, not landscape.... .not that I'm picky..... ) pasted to the front to distinguish them from one another.<BR/><BR/>But your plan of the bitesize Moleskine seems a wise one. Less life to lose in one go.<BR/><BR/>www.isobeldixon.comBill Herberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06993604756613831692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9055056.post-69699922498762069632008-09-25T16:00:00.000-07:002008-09-25T16:00:00.000-07:00The trivia (three-lane-ends) is also where Oedipus...The trivia (three-lane-ends) is also where Oedipus killed his father.<BR/><BR/>I am enjoying this blog, it is as good as a novel. <BR/><BR/>recreative : could be a term for all those occasions when we start with history and fall back on imagination to supply the gaps, or perhaps the things we do not understand.Sally Evanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02894535996257278164noreply@blogger.com