"We are who we are because of those we choose to love and because of those who love us."

Kate Mosse - The Winter Ghosts

www.katemosse.com

Just finished reading this. Recommend it.

Very well written and perceptive, it explores the inner life of grief, healing, imagination and love. Historical context is the the elimination of the last Cathar community in 14th century France in a remote valley at the edge of the Pyrenees. The "ghost story" part is one of those perfectly balanced tales on the edge of the distinction between what is imagined and what exists in the world outside the imagination.

The quote (fictional) is from the English translation of an old parchment found in a cave in southern France, the last words of the last person out of several hundred Cathar heretics who were sealed up in the cave to die.

Write Now!

I have spent a lifetime gathering material. It is high time to start writing.

Teep's Laaste Craap

Samuel Beckett wrote the one-act play "Krapp's Last Tape" (1958). Click link for the text of the play.

I had the thought of inverting the title to be "Tape's Last Krapp." Pretty lame idea. I looked it up to see if anybody else had done it. I only found one - a band named "Tape's Last Krapp," 2 guys, 4-song internet album called "Music For Poets and Fascists" - sounds ugly to me. So at least my idea is not completely commonplace. Perhaps lame, but not commonplace. Came up with Dutch version, "Teep's Laaste Craap." Teep would be pronounced "tape" in Dutch.