Re: [acornlive] (Fwd) WHY2K?

Alex Keegan (acornlive@dublinwriters.org)
Thu, 23 Mar 2000 07:51:45 -0000 

I get less than a post a week, is that right?

As for gloom, dunno, but many people write because they have ghosts... and
mine queue up... most of my stories are dark, fatalistic... but
interestingly my lighter, lightweight ones are far more popular.

My deep belief is something like "Life's a bitch and then you die", even
when I'm going through a brilliant time, in love, with kids, whatever...
just seems life is tough and dark and that's where the meat of our art comes
from.

But honesly, seriously, I'm not a miserable bloke, just an optimistic
fatalist.


My biggest hits have involved:

A history of a man who survives a mining disaster, then war (best friend
killed) and aches to see the man who mentored hm as a youngster.

A father who accidentally takes out his daughter's eye.

A man dying of (?) who sits on a bus and reflects about a life full of (his)
emotional cruelty.

A man dying of (?) who takes the kids to Disney but keeps his impending
death a secret.

More recently, a blocked writer so fascinated by bleeding from his rear that
he bleeds to death in the bath "for the experience".

(Hello List).



Alex


Alex Keegan, Bath, England
http://www.btinternet.com/~alex.keegan1
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----- Original Message -----
From: Nessa O'Mahony <nessa@indigo.ie>
To: <acornlive@dublinwriters.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 6:39 AM
Subject: [acornlive] (Fwd) WHY2K?


> Hi there
>
> I wondered whether any of you bright people had any suggestions
> for John - his is an accurate observation, I believe.
>
> ------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
> Date sent:      Thu, 23 Mar 2000 08:28:07 +1200
> From:           "john O'Neill" <kiwijohn@igrin.co.nz>
> To:             nessa@indigo.ie
> Subject:        WHY2K?
>
> Dear Nessa
> Thank you for publishing my fable in Acorn. I am in good, if depressing,
> company. Is there an explanation for the obvious fact that as Ireland
> and the Irish grew more prosperous, their writing grew more
> introspective and dark?
> Yours, hopefully,
> John O'Neill
>
>
>
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