In a message dated 1/15/13 5:02:49 PM, [email protected] writes:
> On Jan 15, 2013, at 1:29 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > > KIT > > -- But we're not in a kitchen right now -- > > BREN > > -- No, we're on a battlefield -- > > How appropriate, a Kit and a Bren on a battlefield. Did you choose those > names > for their associations to military life and warfare? > > I wonder if any of you visual artists can attest to experiencing anything like this: I have a number of times found myself using a name or an image and only later on discovering its unexpected aptness. As a young man I scribbled for a long time at a novel I never finished. Early on, it came to me several times to summon up the image of a volcano in some metaphoric way. Near the end, my characters were on a plateau high in the Appenine mountains. That night, the darkness is lit red as one character fires a shotgun down into another guy's tent. (To my youthful imagination it seemed striking that indeed he kills someone -- he discovers he has shot his own wife in her naked back.)
