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Lance
There is one scene in Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair in which the narrator, a writer called Bendrix, eaten up by jealousy of his former lover, meets a private detective he has hired to find out about her latest affair. The detective, Parkis, is a hard-working and honest man who takes his young…
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One true sentence
I don’t know why, but today Hemingway popped into my head. I remembered his advice that a good way to start a story was to write one true sentence. Perhaps I was subconsciously looking for something solid and stable, something to hold on to. At first, it seemed a promising approach. But then all I…
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The Phantom 'Rickshaw
Rudyard Kipling is currently not a very popular author because he is associated with the British Empire, an entity that has a hopelessly bad reputation although it catapulted major parts of this world into the modern era – for good or for bad, that depends on the outlook of the observer. Anyway, I’m a sucker…
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