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Not read dfw for a while - i used to be huge fan - i will settle down and have a re-read of this tonight

Counter that with more subs, bigger squads. If you look back and see Liverpool, Forest, Villa all won the European Cup with about 14 players, it’s mind boggling.

I think a prose stylist is someone whose prose style you really like but which drives others mad. It can be the ornate spiralling sentences of Proust, the muscular pithiness of Hemingway, the strange elusiveness of Lispector - it’s the very grain of their voice I think. It’s the self conscious...

No 1 son has been to Belgium, bought me a whole bunch of beers for Fathers’ day - complete with the proper glasses. Now I can be a full on beer wanker.

I’ve just been reading about Proust and synesthesia- I wonder if it’s something that he picked up from Rimbaud. What I like about Rimbaud is the full blooded, unapologetically extreme way he expresses himself. It seems so totally alien from English poetry - only Swinburne has that unhinged...

I recently read the penguin edition, it’s a parallel text which helps, I think - it also had a decent selection of his letters. What I did was read it while keeping an eye on the original and if I had the time, I’d search up other translations. You have to just accept translations of poetry are...

Great to see Nashe on there. Properly odd and disturbing. This gives a flavour on Night terrors

Mate. You’ve got your own thread. Could you fuck off back to it. This thread was set up by @padraig (u.s.) to highlight some really fucking awful stuff, let’s not get distracted.

Just saw the news. Think there’s a string of great novels - I just looked up his bibliography and I hadn’t read his first or last stuff but everything else in between and I think there’s not a lot of filler in there. Pretty Horses, Child of God, Blood Meridian - probably the last of a certain...

Yep. On a slow news day, one of the jobs is to go through updating obits for people who aren’t dead yet.

Transfer merry go round under way. Mbappe looks like he’s off. That’ll probably alter where Kane goes. Arsenal paying for 100m for Rice looks extortionate. Will West Ham do a Spurs and waste the cash (we sold Elvis and bought the Beatles ffs) I imagine City will get any business they want done...

62-63 Spurs won CWC.

Johnson on Berlisconi from early 2000s “. If we are obliged to compare Silvio Berlusconi with Anna Lindh, and other bossy, high-taxing European politicians. I agree with Farrell: as the narrator says of Jay Gatsby, a man Berlusconi to some extent resembles, he is ‘better than the whole damn lot...

West Ham won the Europa Conference. More like the InterToto or the LDV vans of European football. Seville won the Europa League - like they do almost every year.

Have to remember the injury that he sustained - never had the mythical yard of pace. People forget how fucking deadly he was - that goal against Argentina, robbing the FA cup from Arsenal. He was totally unplayable- and no one expected Liverpool to win the CL next season. Gerrard was all lined...

There's always that moment when Tenderness starts playing - is it going to be Otis or is that clown Kanye going to come along and shit all over the tune.

Rick Wright ended up being 'employed' by the Floyd throughout the 90s and 00s- something to do with not being allowed to re-become a member of PF again after he walked out when The Wall was finished. Seems somewhat shabby when seen from the outside

The spotify playlist definitely ahs some great stuff on it but i'm guessing a 1981 playlist would be equally, if not more, impressive

This ENE wind has been stuck here for about a fortnight now. It can fuck right off.

I’d say it’s a proto type of what’s to come - the mysterious stranger, the perfect child/woman, financial ruin, benefactors, comic turns, grotesques, a genuinely evil character and surprise heroism. It’s all there it’s not all clicked into place and there are moments of heaviness but the energy...