Benjamin west engraving fidelia and speranza

#BENJAMIN WEST ENGRAVING FIDELIA AND SPERANZA TRIAL#

The area north of Dong Hoi is one of the poorest in Vietnam and is little developed for tourism. Karst islands at sea, karst scenery inland.Д¬olonial buildings and monstrous caves beckon. The waters here are patrolled by squadrons of tourist junks seeking unique dramatic views seen by the fleets of other tourist boats. Ninh Binh to Vinh, Vietnam, Tuesday 26 March 2019ДЄlthough largely devoid of beaches, VietnamвЂ™s northern coast boasts mystical scenery, where jagged islands jut out of the sea in their thousands, where one stumbles upon hidden coves, needle-sharp ridges and cliffs of ribbed limestone. Truth is not found in accuracy of detail as much as in the commonality of the human experience. Instead let us read of what it could have been, for time and distance blur detail. Let me not judge her by my own distinct differences, but instead let us see her journey as it was, rather than what we believe it should have been.

To see the world as Heidi Hoi has requires courage, but what a woman is willing to sacrifice differs from that of a man. To judge a cat from the perspective of a dog is to misjudge the cat. I say this not to judge her, but to simply acknowledge that the standards of a woman differ from the standards of a man. Months of globetrotting, years of travel, and seldom a night did Swiss Miss sleep in settings too alien from her settled experience. I am still trying to learn from the book that is the world. Some folks who travel seek simply to escape the life they know too well by trying to find its familiar luxuries in places unfamiliar.ДЄ ten-day vacation on the Black Sea coast and each evening in a hotel.Д«ut I spend more time writing and reading than swimming and drinking, more time in museums than on the beach. We dare not even daydream, for every moment we must distract ourselves from wasted time, foolishly forgetting that it is the distraction from thought and contemplation that is truly the waste. So we concentrate solely on our destined desires, we skim, we skip, we excuse ourselves from effort if the effort requires time and thought. We want information, entertainment, invention, even truth and beauty, and we want it all NOW.

#BENJAMIN WEST ENGRAVING FIDELIA AND SPERANZA TRIAL#

To write, even the most basic of blogs, is to learn to write by rote, by painful practice, by wearisome work, by repeated terrible terrifying trial and error, surprising success and abysmal failure, to create words someone else might admire. In an age that prides itself on insight, tolerance and awareness, we are blind and intolerant and oblivious to whatever lies beyond our own perceptions and experience. We have been instructed to prosecute or defend writers, as if in a court of law, on charges having to do with the writersвЂ™ origins, their racial, cultural, political, religious and class background.Д«efore a word is read, because so many words are written by so many writers, a writer must be pre-judged worthy of our time and attention long before his language is actually experienced. Instead we have all been encouraged to have, to form, strong and critical (and often negative) opinions of all that we encounter. It is not a great time in history to be a writer, for too little attention is paid to language, to the actual words and sentences that a writer uses. How many rooms there are in the House of Art!ДЄbove: Hundertwasserhaus (Hundred Water House), Wien (Vienna), Г–sterreich (Austria) Travel accounts should take us far from our lives while teaching us about life. I write for adults, but I treat them as children, for children love imagination with all its kaleidoscopic possibilities. Writers learn to write by writing, conscious of style, of diction, of how sentences are formed and information conveyed, how plot is structured and characters created, how detail and dialogue are designed, how stories are spun and dreams woven.ДЄnd as I write I discover that writing is done one word at a time, one punctuation mark each moment. Such is the quality of experience I seek to offer you, in as many and diverse ways that I can, if I can.ДЇor I am still learning to write, still seeking to satisfy readers with sentences that shrink, snap into place, and emerge into the world in a clear economical sharp shape. It can suggest in a page what could be stated in a volume.

The short story can discover depths of meaning in the casual word or action.

The sudden unforgettable revelation of character, the vision of a world through anotherвЂ™s eyes, the glimpse of truth, the capture of a moment in time.ДЄll this the short story, at its best, is uniquely capable of conveying, for in its very shortness lies its greatest strength.

Benjamin west engraving fidelia and speranza