Kia tae ki te wā e rere ai tēnei pou, tērā pea kua noho ahau hei rangatira mō te reo irirangi i takoto i runga i te tēpu taha o te moenga o Philip Roth.
E mōhio ana koe ki a Philip Roth, te kaituhi toa o te National Book Award me te Pulitzer Prize mō ngā pukapuka rongonui pērā i a "Goodbye, Columbus," "Portnoy's Complaint" me "The Plot Against America"? I mate ia i te tau kua hipa, ā, i te mutunga wiki kua hipa, i hokona ētahi o āna taonga i roto i tētahi hokohoko whenua e whakaatu ana i te tono tuihono.
He Proton Model 320 te reo irirangi karaka, ā, kāore he mea motuhake mōna i tua atu i te mea i roto i te rūma moe matua o Philip Roth.
Koinei pea te mea i tirohia e Philip Roth i a ia e ara ake ana i waenganui pō, i a ia e ngau ana i tētahi wāhanga o tōna roro ki tētahi raruraru tuhituhi. I a ia e titiro ana ki ngā tau e mura ana i te whakaaturanga, i kanga ia i tōna mate i kore ai ia e moe pai, i whakamarie rānei i te mōhio ahakoa e okioki ana ia, kei te tuhituhi tētahi wāhanga o ia?
Kāre au i te tino mōhio he aha ahau i hiahia ai ki te hoko i tētahi mea nā Philip Roth, engari i taku kitenga i te hokohoko tuihono, ka tīmata taku hiahia nui ki tēnā.
Engari, kua nui rawa atu taku tono mō te mīhini pato ā-ringa a Olivetti i whakamahia e Roth i te tīmatanga o tana mahi. He nui rawa hoki ngā utu mōku mō ngā tauira IBM Selectric i nekehia e Roth i muri mai.
Kua roa ahau e titiro ana ki tētahi tūru hiako nō te whare tuhi a Roth, ka taea e koe te haere atu me te taraiwa mēnā kei te takoto noa i te taha o te rori. Kua rakuraku, kua poke, kua pakaru rawa, kāore e taea te mōhio. Me te mea nei ka hongi au i te kakara o te kakara mā te mata rorohiko, engari kei te titiro tonu ahau ki reira, kei te whakaaro ahau ki te tuku tono, me te ngana ki te tatau i te utu hei tuku mai ki ahau. Tērā pea ka haereere ahau i runga i te rori ka reti i tētahi taraka hei whakahoki mai. Ka whiwhi ahau i tētahi kōrero mai i taua mea: "Ko te tūru pokepoke a Philip Roth puta noa i Amerika māua ko ia."
Ahakoa he tino noa iho taku ake wāhi mahi — he rūma moe tāpiri me te tēpu — he hiahia tonu taku ki te kite i ngā tirohanga ki ngā wāhi noho tuhituhi o ngā kaituhi. I tētahi haerenga pukapuka i ngā tau kua pahure ake nei, i whakarite ahau kia haere ki Rowan Oak, te kāinga o mua o William Faulkner i Oxford, Mississippi. Inaianei he whare taonga kei reira e kite ai koe i tana rūma tuhituhi, kua whakaritea pērā i tana wā e mahi ana, me ngā karāhe i runga i te tēpu tata. I tētahi atu rūma, ka kite koe i te whakatakotoranga o tana pukapuka "A Fable" kua tuhia tika ki ngā pakitara.
Ki te toro atu koe ki Te Whare Wānanga o Duke, ka kite koe i te tēpu tuhituhi a Virginia Woolf, he mea hanga ki te ōki pakari me te taupoki he mea hono hei rokiroki, me te pikitia peita o Clio, te kaiwhakaaro o te hītori i runga ake nei. Kāore he mea papai rawa atu i roto i te whenua o Roth, i roto i tēnei hokohoko.
Ko te tikanga ko ngā kupu te mea nui, kaua ko ngā taonga e karapoti ana i tō rātou kaihanga. Ko ngā taonga whakamahau whiri a Roth (kāore he tono i te wā e tuhia ana tēnei) ehara i te pūtake o tōna mohiotanga. Kāore pea ngā taonga tonu i te tino nui, ā, kei te whakauru atu ahau ki roto i a rātou he tikanga kāore e tika ana. Ko ngā pepa me ngā reta e pā ana ki te mahi tuhituhi a Roth kei te Whare Pukapuka o te Runanga e puritia ana, ā, me te tumanako ka taea te uru atu mō ake tonu atu.
Ko John Warner te kaituhi o “Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities.”
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He kōrero pono katoa, he kōrero paki te nuinga, engari e aro ana hoki ki ētahi take ahurea/tūturu. Ko tāku e hiahia ana ko "Heartland: He Whakamaharatanga mō te Mahi Kaha me te Poraka i te Whenua Tino Rauemi o te Ao" nā Sarah Smarsh.
Ina pānui au i tētahi pukapuka hou e tika ana kia tūtohutia, ka tāpirihia e au ki tētahi pou i runga i taku rorohiko, ā, mai i taua wā tonu ka rapu au i te kaipānui tika. I tēnei wā, ko te pukapuka "Rules for Visiting" a Jessica Francis Kane he pukapuka tino pai mō Judy.
Nō Pēpuere tēnei, he puranga tono i tukuna hētia e au ki taku ake īmēra. Kāore e taea e au te whakautu katoa, engari hei tohu iti, ka taea e au te whakaae kei reira tonu. Mai i Pēpuere, kua nui ake ngā pukapuka kua pānuihia e Carrie, engari i runga i tēnei rārangi, e taunaki ana ahau i te pukapuka "Bad Things Happen" nā Harry Dolan.
Te wā tuku: Hurae-23-2019