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1933.
NOTES OF THE DAY HOW WE NOVELISTS GET The Very Idea!
OUR PLOTS
By GILBERT FRANKAU
ment of powerful central pro- because I only have to write when product of his own imagination
The discussions which open in Paris to-day with a view to the close collaboration of the Longue In development schemed In China
The first answer I can give to from the places and people among may prove of high moment to both the question I am asked almost whom they move. There nover China and the world at large. It Jaily, "Please tell me how ያ ካ
was a more law-abiding citizen, is afgnificant that the sponsors start a book?" is that your true Sabatini, prince of swashbuckling for instance, than Edgar Wallace. mean to confine
themselves to story-teller, like your true poet, la novelista, ia a fishing addict. consideration of modernisation born and not made.
Phillips Oppenheim started Ife In Personally, nevertheless, there the prosaic boot-trade. "Sapper" plans for "cortain provinees" be- cause it has long been the conten- is no word which offende mo more lives quietly in Switzerland, and tion of close observers of the when applied to my own craft than never drinks ale with his break- china situation that the best hope the word "Inspiration." And how never
gladly would I slay the cheerful Yet "Sapper's" "Bulldog Drum. for the country is the establish- lunatles who think I'm so lucky mond" is no more entirely the
vinces, economically and financial-I'm in the mood."
than was Conan Doyle's "Sherlock No successful novelist has ever Holmas." ly prosperoys, governed, directly
No character, in fiction is entire from Nanking. A strong central written like that. Story-telling nucleus, it is hold, is the only is just as much a profession as ly the product of the writer's own. chartered accountancy. And just imagination. Actually, the founda as hard work.
tion of all good fiction is fact. foundation from which China as a nation develop; attempts to compel
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Inspiration without technique is valueless. One does one's job be-read this year is "The Forbidden THAT, of course, was the cause one la driven to do it. And Territory," by Dennis Wheatley,
cause of all the trouble. that one of the best driving-forces almost the entire action of which for the novelist is lack of money takes place in Russia. He only We have tried to disown is proven foot.
sot his story there because Russia that it was our party, but Trollope admitted this frankly was the one place in which the those cards incriminated us. and nearly lost his Victorian pub-incidents of the story could con- lie in consequence. Dickens, notceivably occur.
We were not sure at the quite so frank nevor, denied that he was urged to work by the fear That word "conceivably" of being poor. Scott killed him-vital to every novellet. Whatever But maybe it was our party self to pay debts. Thackeray was elso he is, he must be convincing. after all. openly what we moderns would While you are reading him-how- enll a "commercial novelist." So ever much you may criticise him was Dunias, one of the greatest afterwards--you must believe in story-tellers who ever llved.
him. And this belief of yours is only possible when the first iden for the story comes from life It- self.
time.
is
Everybody says we were the host, and anyway, it was us who paid.
At least, we signed the chits.. Yes, now we come to think of it, it was our party. 21
The old man is standing on his
hend on the wall, is it because he hurt his feet on the broken champagne glasses?
More than a little truth probably
PRAISE INSUFFICIENT. lies in the suggestion that the
actively in- Galsworthy himself than whom countries which are
China'suo man ever held the craft higher teresting themselves in
--did not scruple to state that men Any incident, any character, any How else can twe account for more economic development are
only wrote for "bread and praise." scene from life itself may give the those stains on the wall, that din. their own concerned finally with
But that public praise alone is story-teller that arst, idea. The ing room table standing drunken- China.
one of the not sufficient incentive scems de- first idea for
mostly on three legs, the gramophone interests than those of
no successful stories I ever wrote came recorda whose palpitating Political considerations are possibly monstrated by the fact that
upon mun with a comfortable unearned from reading, in The Daily Mail, melodies have been hushed for paramount. Japan's grip Manchuria, her practical closure of came income has ever succeeded in the news that a fraudulent finan-ever, the broken bottles that it- DEATH.
the Open Door in the four North-becoming the popular story-teller cier had escaped to the Continent, ter the footpath, and the visit of
of his day.
accompanied by a lady, in an the police force in the wee small SINCLAIR. 17th July, 1933, at Eastern Provinces, and the stendy The highbrow clique is always aeroplane.
hours of the morning? Kowloon Hospital, Captain propaganda by certain quartors in ready to scoff at that word "popu- But to imagine, as so many of Arthur Munro Sinclair, lute Indo-China Steamships. Funeral China in favour of a rapprochement lar." Yet popularity, I maintain, one's readers do, that such hap
test of Apenings are anything more than will pass the Monument at 5 with Japan, the creation of a Pan-is the one infallible
be the first spark struck from the p.m. to-day.
Asia movement, and therefore ac- great story-teller, who must
his flint of one's imagination by the ceptance of Japanese tutelage in essentially of his own time,
steel of circumstance is wrong China, are matters of urgent con- ovn people, and his own place.
"There's no sich a person' ae Your true story-teller gets a hun-
We picked ourself up from the- In the West. In the last
International novelist. Ab-dred such inspirations overy day. analysis, however, it makes little struct the Englishman from It is in the judicious selection, floor and retrieved a leg from the difference to China what factors Dickens; abstract the Frenchman and in the judicious working-out, window sill.
At least we were whole. are motivating the interest of im-from Zola; abstract the Russian of these inspirations that the real
Unashamedly we scratched our- portant Powers in development from Turgenieft, and you abstract craft of the novelist Hea.
reaction. for self. There Sinclair Lewis laboura works. If the chief motive is the very noul.
The need to work apart, how-weeks and months on a working Broken glass fell from the tousled
commita accepted as the preservation of ever, what first fires the imagina scenario before he
at masses of our hair. And nearly
What a party! the freedom of trade, China hag tion of the horn story-teller? In-single word to paper,
"atmosphere"the every good novelist has to do the nothing to fear from offers of dubitably financial assistance in developing places and the people among same. Our craft is not, like her resources, by which alone will whom one moves. Kipling's poetry, one of pure Inspiration. she be able finally to attain her atmosphere was India; Hardy's It is blend of inspiration, im- rightful position in the comity pf Wessex"; Compton Mackenzie's-agination, and sheer hard work. nations.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1983.
A CASE FOR DISCRIMINATION
cern
Te-THE AIRSHIP'S FUTURE
new
*om.
craft,
to
A very brief experience of the cabaret curfew hour has re- vealed its disastrous effects upon a perfectly legitimate business. It is all very fine for the police to point to the complaints ceived from residential districts in justification for insisting upon
The United States apparently a midnight closing hour. No intends to persist in experiments one holds any brief for estab- with lighter-than-air craft despite lishments which prevent people the Akron disaster. Members of _from_obtaining the sleep and the Congress investigation
the protection from unnecessary mittee, in their report, urge the disturbance to which they are construction of two entitled. There is a remedy for one to replace the Akron, and one this grievance which does not in- to serve the purposes of a training volve the bull-at-a-gate method ship. They insist that dirigibles
have sufficient military value. of placing all dancing academies justify further expenditure on in the same category and im-their development, a finding which posing onerous restrictions upon comes rather as a surprise in the all alike. The city cabarets, face of the evidence. The Akron, which have afforded harmless the Shenandoah, and the R.101 ali amusement to hundreds of re- sped to disaster as the result of a sidents, are entitled to favour-fundamental inability to maintain able discrimination. They are stability in swift vertical currents establishments of air. Carried downwards at an well-conducted and fill a need. They are not appalling speed, as swiftly hurled licensed. They do not conflict high into the air as they encounter with the interests of any other ed a reverse current and then the final plunge over which they class of business. There is not had no control, the structures the slightest reason for treating failed stund up
to
to the them as a social nuisance, even violent strains imposed by this wild if they carry on their frivolities movement at the mercy of the mankind until three o'clock in the mor- atmosphere. Nothing ning. They represent the Hong-has yet devised la likely to master kong equivalent of the night this problem. Experiments with club, in a mild and innocuous airships of design similar to those form. Similar institutions, with of the past would, therefore, ap- far greater freedoms, are to be ear perilously like risking valu found all over the British Isles, able lives. where, except when licensing re-
gulations aro infringed, official- POLAR PEREGRINATIONS
Ita
an
dom does not think of interfer- ing. It is, we know, the ten-
Reports that the north pole la dency of the sanctimonious, of whom very bright specimens can moving towards Groenland per But the movement is vory sist. be found in the Far East, to look slow and is causing no alarm upon each and every attempt to among the Eskimos. Late reports add to the gaioty of life as the have reflected no suspicion that foundation of a new sink of the old axle is likely to break iniquity. But cabarets do not down under the millions of yours cater to this type, who form of wear and tear to which it has
subjected. Evon their judgments without the heen. slightest verification. The one indication of a loose bearing
"wabbling" may be merely reasonable grievance against which nature will speedily repair. cabarets in the Colony applica Meanwhile, the alleged southerly only to those in residential areas. movement of the pole which It is ille for the police to take couldn't take a trip in any other up the attitude that they can-direction if it wanted to ie not both likely to taka it unexpectedly into not discriminate. They could and should. Few would the neighbourhood of the equator. object if cabarets were given in- A billion years or so hence it may mako a'convenient hatrack for structions to remove themselves more populous regions than it For the present. entirely from residential dis- sarvon "to-day. tricts. But the midnight clos Mark Twain once observed. ing hour in the city is a blunder, bout the weather, there lé a gond coating managements and dan- loal of talk about the north pole's clrig partners Heavily, merely shaviour, but nobody seems to bo
loing much about It
an
No one will ever know, we thought gratefully,
was no
We threw our memory back to the dim vistas of the dirty past and groaned aloud. No, wo could not remember everything?
We groaned, and a startled-Ford of leapt from its bearings and tore out of around and around our head.
slcoping on the roof, he reported.
Who, for instance, slapped our to whom most of us owe a debt we Good novels never "write them- face? Why? What did we take?
that repaying the solves." When
happens, How much? When? Was our tie are churlish in. university and the public school. when words start tumbling over straight? Did we or did we not?
one another and get out of con- Say when. REAL-LIFE NOVELISTS. Compton Mackenzie, as a young tral, it means that the self-critical man, blazed the trail of the function of the novelist-one
Stehle greatest powers-je "autobiographical" novel. phen. MacKenna and Alee Waugh action. He is writing, then, only The boy came in. A man was followed him. Hugh Walpole in to please himself,
The Cathedral' also draws from Yet that even this rule has its There was a hat impaled on the his own upbringing. So does exceptions I am driven to admit as lamp post and a chit nailed to the Louis, Golding. So does Ethel Telt here looking at the first-copy door. Was it all right?
We groaned again and the boy Mannin, whose "Sounding Brass" of my own latest novel which has portrays her own first job in an just come in from the printers, fled.
18. her For that novel dictated itself in advertising office--just
Venetian Windows" demonstrates less than a hundred hours straight her inside knowledge of Suburbia. to the revolving wax of my
although Nor, if I may be allowed to refer dictaphone. And
I
Listlessly we took a hand out of our hair and tore open the chit.
It was an invitation to a party.
was down.
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to my own work for a moment, does laboured three whole months try my own "Peter Jackson, Cigar ing to correct it, nearly all my way out over the eastern horizon, Merchant," provide any exception original words seem to have put a drunken sun lifted itself in a cloud to this rule.
very
of
of deshabille and aimed a bloodshot themselves back. Contrariwise, however, there are So perhaps the whole craft is eye at the course it had run so often the one of inspiration, and the ques-und would have to run again that day be any bread in was going there reverse of their owntion which begins this article has
the celestial pantry, story-tellers who draw from
imaginations only that first answer. atmosphere-their
It was still dawn. I wish I know,
Only the sentimental twittering a crow and the faint call of the urging them to remove themselves
bloater to his mato broke the silence. From the city rose the fragrance of human bodies, wreathing itself up through the air until it reached the Peak, where it lay quite still, pre- tanding to be a cloud..
Live just like a siphyl
Incidentally it was still only dawn, we reflected, trying to keep up the Wordsworth tradition but wishing that the ferry would come along.
A coollo appeared from nowhere, reminiscent of the manner in which shroffs confront us on eur walks,
Said he: "There is nothing more. divinely touching In its majesty than a vast sheet of water unbroken foul craft of man, do you think?
by the
He disappeared as unpleasantly as ho came and wo turned a bow-legged gazo across the vast sheet of waters
bashful Slowly at first, like a maiden taking a surreptitious bathe, and then more surely like a a pig that has smelt acorns, the graceful forD of the ferry shot into view.
Five minutes later we wote reclin ing at case, a man who had somehow obtained, possession of a policeman's. uniform having assisted us aboard. Wo gathered that he did not approve of the Wordsworth cult. There were loara in our eyes as we pushed off: for the other side. There is always. something pathetic about men who go down to the sea in ships.
It was not until an hour later that wo again stoad at the water's edge while another man who had also found a policeman's uniform, explained to us that wp. lived on the other side of the water and we had come across, on the last ferry;
Aun.
We pointed defiantly to the whose faded orb was now fully visiblo to the naked ́aya,ka
The man took off our smoked glasnos and laughed, an unpoetje laugh: "That's not the sun' guffawod.