tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post4059232882764288132..comments2023-10-03T11:41:21.191+01:00Comments on The Truth About Lies: #597Jim Murdochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-54598825897969767602015-12-10T11:16:23.677+00:002015-12-10T11:16:23.677+00:00Although not so named, Kass, Jim Valentine in the ...Although not so named, <b>Kass</b>, Jim Valentine in the new book could really have been called ‘The Waiter’ because that’s what he does for the best part of the book, some thirty years doing nothing much bar sit on a park bench and not write. Waiting is a major theme in the book, waiting and writing and waiting to write. In fact I might’ve called the book <i>The Waiter</i> but the first thing people would think about would be a person whose job is to serve customers at their tables in a restaurant and that would be confusing. As Jim notes:<br /><br /><i>I swear the life I have lived, the half-life at least, has been spent waiting and I have been patient. I have done what we who wait do whilst trying not to indulge hope lest we fall ill; I have watched (it is what the origin of the word denotes, “to have in wait, to observe”) and that is why we have tarried awhile, to see what can be seen. We are not waiting for, in, to or with. We are simply waiting and I am up to high doh with it because there is only so much that can be seen. The eye wearies as does the ear or the pallet. It is a stage one has to reach naturally, to have become bored, if that is the right word, with externals. Not bored: done. Only afterward can we turn our attentions to bigger issues.</i>Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-25262287271979649022015-12-07T22:37:06.800+00:002015-12-07T22:37:06.800+00:00Oh, this theme of waiting. I'm surprised you h...Oh, this theme of waiting. I'm surprised you haven't made it an actual character in one of your books.<br /><br />Now that you've killed Godot, can't we all be done with waiting?Kasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05233330248952156754noreply@blogger.com