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I've read about half of Graham Robb Parisians. It's alright but no laughs. A bit like he's doing a Sinclair on Paris, there are chapters on the guy who built the catacombs and alchemists knowing about atomic explosions before the physicists did etc. Keeps me reading though so can't be that bad

that's one of the most powerful images in the film i reckon

who did the translation ???

not found a copy yet

I'll have a look for that tomorrow

i didn't know until just now that he wrote some novels might be a good way in

oops meant beer not wine

The Frugal Way It is calmness, the frugal way, The misfortune that no longer has a name. It is my thirst cut out: Witchcraft, ingenuity. Chase me, follow me, But numberless and resembling, Such as I will be. Already the stars, Already the pebbles, the torrent... Every visible step Is a lost...

some argue the prophet never saw wine or whisky so you can drink as much of those as you like

there's another thread on this forum about why nobody likes jim o'r but i can't track it down @version

@sufi is a fan. he was friends with Richard Aldington and blurbed his book A Dream in the Luxembourg.

i reread it after 25+ years and it was as if i had read it last week

as inobtrusive as the diacritics on an ë

detective instinct

been reading a lot of detective fiction as usual and quite deliberately dressed my self as some kind of private eye here i am staking out a building where no criminal activity is suspected

signs of life

one of the best of that era

i used to love this label

post falling - meme falling - breakthrough in dark theme

The whole thing stinks if you ask me. I've seen that line selectively quoted (in the introduction to the WB reader I think) as "Love. What there is." - an example of the disgraceful practice of posthumous editing. Seems "convenient"that WB typed "what" instead of "that". While I'm on the...