Daria Blackwell
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Paul Lynch:
Paul, I am a bluewater sailor and I find your descriptions of the ocean and storms at sea so vivid and realistic. Are you a sailor? Have you crossed oceans?
Paul Lynch
Hi Daria. Many thanks for your question. I am but a land lubber, though I grew up a few miles away from the sea in Donegal and my father sailed the Pacific as an officer in the merchant fleet before I was born. I grew up hearing his yarns about ship-wrecking typhoons, waves that could break super-tankers in two and other sea adventures...
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Glinsky
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Paul Lynch:
More a request than a question: Grace had a tremendous effect on me and it was your own reading – incantation, almost – of an extract that brought me to it, so I wondered whether you had plans for further readings? (Perhaps you won’t mind me adding that the blue-violet light through which the closing words are spoken creates as indelible an impression as anything I have ever read.) Many thanks.
Ash
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Paul Lynch:
Paul - there is one page in the Prophet Song that will haunt me for the rest of my life. Yet is the most authentic, tragic page I have ever read or will ever read. I guess my question is cryptic - does this page haunt you and did it hurt to write such a wonderfully, lyrical, yet deeply tragic page of writing? I guess this requires you to guess that page and not provide plot spoilers. Either way - it was life changing.
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