[{"node":{"title":"Boyd112","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd112","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Ais-Eiri, Belfast, Troubles","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd112","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd112_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff\nLETTER FROM BELFAST\n\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014-0O0\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n\nDear Larry,\n\nThank you for your letter last week asking me to\nwrite an article for Ais-Eiri. I've made two attempts\nalready and failed. Will this letter do instead?\nIf it's unsuitable, tear it up. But the fact is that\nwhat I have to say about living and writing in Belfast at\npresent is far too personal, too disjointed, too\nfragmentary, to be readily shaped into an article. An\narticle presupposes expertise, special insights, research,\nand I can lay claim to none of these. There have been\nmany millions of words uttered or written about the\n'troubles'; broadcasters, journalists, professors,\npoliticians, economists, historians, sociologists,\nauthors and 'authorities' of all sorts have had, or are\nhaving, their say, and such is the linguistic deluge that\nI'm drenched with it all and can take no more\n\nNow as news comes in\nof each neighbourly murder\nwe pine for ceremony,\ncustomary rhythms:\nthe temperate footsteps\nof a cortege, winding past\neach blinded home .....\n\n- 1 -\n","Type":"Text"}}]