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May. 30th, 2010 01:53 pmNovels are about pivotal people, right? About people who are at a crux or a point and can change the world around them, or the universe around them, or find true romance for their next best friend. The right sequence of actions by the right person and lo, the plot is fixed!
Rose Tremain says about herself (in the rather fun set of interviews here) that "Her paternal great-grandfather was William Thomson, archbishop of York. Her maternal great-grandmother was a chambermaid." She's the pivotal point between an archbishop and a chambermaid. She can use either direction to make the crucial set of decisions if she happens to find herself in the middle of the right plot, as protagonist. Me, I'm the pivotal point between Australia's far right and the Communist Party. Given Tremain is neither archbishop or chambermaid and I'm neither of the far right or the far left, this is rather cool.
My latest cheap theory is that we're all pivotal. The question is finding the two points we balance precariously between.
I'm tired of my evil tooth. I think I might have to ring the dentist again tomorrow. This post was brought to you by that tooth. It ought to be more evil, oughtn't it? Unless anyone reading this is the natural pivotal point beween two mass murderers? That'd be the Pivot of Evil (which is not the same thing as the Trivet of Evil. Not even close.).
Rose Tremain says about herself (in the rather fun set of interviews here) that "Her paternal great-grandfather was William Thomson, archbishop of York. Her maternal great-grandmother was a chambermaid." She's the pivotal point between an archbishop and a chambermaid. She can use either direction to make the crucial set of decisions if she happens to find herself in the middle of the right plot, as protagonist. Me, I'm the pivotal point between Australia's far right and the Communist Party. Given Tremain is neither archbishop or chambermaid and I'm neither of the far right or the far left, this is rather cool.
My latest cheap theory is that we're all pivotal. The question is finding the two points we balance precariously between.
I'm tired of my evil tooth. I think I might have to ring the dentist again tomorrow. This post was brought to you by that tooth. It ought to be more evil, oughtn't it? Unless anyone reading this is the natural pivotal point beween two mass murderers? That'd be the Pivot of Evil (which is not the same thing as the Trivet of Evil. Not even close.).