Saturday, February 12, 2005
Guterson: "Off the Living Tongue".
Out of the mouths of babes .... Taylor Guterson on his "Opening Day" entry for our island Film Fest (keyword 'cinephiles'), based on a short story by distinguished Guterson père, he of snow falling cedarly: " ... the printed words often didn't flow off the living tongue."
"Woody but *no* wood? What's he on about?" my critics would be entitled to moan. "Woolly review, more like!"
Fair DOs: I've asked around and the best suggested clarification is that, in the field of "dalliance prose", our David droops to the 'deciduously challenged'.
I rather like it. A woman, of course: you wouldn't get a bloke coming up with anything reMOTELY as deft *and* also publishable in a a family blog
