tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post5062396052094860790..comments2024-03-27T20:34:09.464+01:00Comments on zmkc: Untold Storieszmkchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-60398930317628485052011-08-23T23:43:24.966+02:002011-08-23T23:43:24.966+02:00I was thinking, 'all the arts? What about danc...I was thinking, 'all the arts? What about dance?', and then I thought of the gesture of casting out the line, which is actually quite balletic.zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-70963800543030129242011-08-23T09:01:59.244+02:002011-08-23T09:01:59.244+02:00So fishing is like all the arts then. Away you go ...So fishing is like all the arts then. Away you go with your paint to catch a landscape and you come home hours later and look in your basket and discover that you didn't even manage to catch a hill. All you have are invasive species, and who knows how they got there.Umbagollahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556344092820711893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-84511016635033545052011-08-21T02:43:37.837+02:002011-08-21T02:43:37.837+02:00Or possibly because the fish weren't biting, G...Or possibly because the fish weren't biting, Gadjo.<br />I agree, George - I am already compiling my list of writers for whom it would be worth paying whatever it costs to buy a full angling kit, just to shut them up <br />Or maybe Hughes meant that fishing was like writing in the sense that you always come home feeling that you haven't quite caught exactly what you wanted to catch, Umbagollahzmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-89670461390209055872011-08-20T18:12:48.227+02:002011-08-20T18:12:48.227+02:00So that's the reason Izaak Walton sounds so ha...So that's the reason Izaak Walton sounds so happy in <i>The Compleat Angler</i> -- he'd fished away all his bad books, and now that he was left with a good one, he wrote it.Umbagollahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556344092820711893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-32886990225314255932011-08-20T01:17:13.565+02:002011-08-20T01:17:13.565+02:00I wonder about this; Hemingway seemed to manage qu...I wonder about this; Hemingway seemed to manage quite a few words along with all that fishing. But were it so, I could come up with quite a list of Trout Unlimited gift memberships to send out next Christmas.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-90310795672990108012011-08-19T07:19:49.846+02:002011-08-19T07:19:49.846+02:00Hmm, poignant. Maybe that's why fishermen - at...Hmm, poignant. Maybe that's why fishermen - at any rate those who used to inhabit the canal bank where I grew up - seem to be as miserable as poets.Gadjo Dilohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08998278830936531990noreply@blogger.com