Brian Boyd: "This makes me so happy! It's wonderful having
read Ada and thought about it for forty-four years, to find such a lovely
surprise in it, hiding under my nose, that I'd never have found by myself. This
would be the sort of play Véra would have recognised at once (she was a great
orchid-lover, as well as a Clare Bishop)..."
Jansy Mello: The juxtposition of "gaping nestlings" and
orchids made me happy, too. I look forward to reaching more
such "visual puns" that make one laugh. VN's
discreet visual richness is an almost inexhaustible source of
wonder, but I'd been focusing only on the strictly verbal
effects of his similes and metaphors and missing (in a way) their
often precise connection to the objective world.