Comments on: Paul Haines: Slice of Life http://kjbishop.net/2009/10/15/paul-haines-slice-of-life.html K.J. Bishop's home on the web Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:19:42 +0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: kjbishop http://kjbishop.net/2009/10/15/paul-haines-slice-of-life.html/comment-page-1#comment-21049 kjbishop Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:58:23 +0000 http://kjbishop.net/?p=2212#comment-21049 I tend to like novels where things don't fall into place -- Virginia Woolf, Carson McCullers and Patrick White are faves of mine partly because they were great at evoking the dreamlike disconnectedness of life. But it's just a personal preference. I tend to like novels where things don’t fall into place — Virginia Woolf, Carson McCullers and Patrick White are faves of mine partly because they were great at evoking the dreamlike disconnectedness of life. But it’s just a personal preference.

]]> By: Charles A Tan http://kjbishop.net/2009/10/15/paul-haines-slice-of-life.html/comment-page-1#comment-21048 Charles A Tan Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:24:31 +0000 http://kjbishop.net/?p=2212#comment-21048 Don't worry, we love your soapbox. =) Yeah, real life doesn't make sense all the time. And dreams don't make sense too! Yet in fiction, everything seems to fall into place, even the "realistic" novels. Don’t worry, we love your soapbox. =)

Yeah, real life doesn’t make sense all the time. And dreams don’t make sense too! Yet in fiction, everything seems to fall into place, even the “realistic” novels.

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