4th Mar – I read on my father’s army service form that he had blue eyes, a revelation to me;\u00a0 I never looked him in the eye.\u00a0 My mother and three siblings have brown or grey eyes.\u00a0 I have blue eyes.<\/p>\n
5th Mar – A rural commentator on ABC Radio today said he wants ‘action, not just antidotal stories’.<\/p>\n
6th Mar – Just heard Cupid<\/em> by Sam Cooke.\u00a0 Sam asks Cupid:\u00a0 ‘Draw back your bow and let your arrow go straight to my lover’s heart’.\u00a0 But Sam loves a girl who doesn’t know he exists.\u00a0 She can’t be his lover then, since a lover loves.<\/p>\n 7th Mar – Thought about a mentor’s advice to use ‘perhaps’, not ‘maybe’.\u00a0 Saw ‘maybe’ in an article and found myself mouthing ‘perhaps’, which purses the mouth with its two p’s and a sibilant s and a breathy h in the middle.\u00a0 The song Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps <\/em>just wouldn’t work as Maybe, Maybe, Maybe.<\/em><\/p>\n 8th Mar – In a bookshop, I searched for the translators’ names in three editions of Madame Bovary<\/em>. \u00a0The most expensive, a Penguin edition, gave a translator’s name;\u00a0 a cheaper Penguin and the Collins edition made no mention of translators.\u00a0 Perhaps Flaubert wrote them in English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 4th Mar – I read on my father’s army service form that he had blue eyes, a revelation to me;\u00a0 I never looked him in the eye.\u00a0 My mother and three siblings have brown or grey eyes.\u00a0 I have blue eyes. 5th Mar – A rural commentator on ABC Radio today said he wants ‘action, … <\/p>\n