Editor's note: Robert Dessaix ... has recently published a curious and fascinating book, Arabesques, which blends travel memoir with a life of Andre Gide. Here Robert converses with fellow Tasmanian author Danielle Wood ... Danielle has recently embarked on a nonfiction project which involves researching and writing about Tasmania's housewife superstar Marjorie Bligh. From Bligh to Gide, these two subtle thinkers converse about the joys and complexities of writing 'a life'.