drmstream[writing]

a place for things that don't have a place elsewhere

Tag: James Joyce

The last year on drmstream[writing]

  This blog is an inad­ver­tent place, nei­ther com­mon­place book nor pub­lish­ing plat­form, dis­or­derly in approach but earnest in inten­tion, a bal­ance of self provo­ca­tion, hope­ful procla­ma­tion and inter­mit­tent dis­trac­tion. Despite its irres­olute intent, drmstream[writing] frames a rela­tion­ship for a kind-of writer and a kind-of audi­ence.  There is a group of you — a few […]

Can we spell Derivative?

I write like James Joyce I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac jour­nal soft­ware. Ana­lyze your writ­ing! It’s good for my ego, of course, but utterly mean­ing­less. If I write well, I write like myself.

Snow was general all over Ireland…” The last paragraph of Joyce’s The Dead

Yes, the news­pa­pers were right: snow was gen­eral all over Ire­land. It was falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, fur­ther west­wards, softly falling into the dark muti­nous Shan­non waves. It was falling too upon every part of the lonely church­yard where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses […]