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I think that's right - he doesn't have the swing of Pound does he? But i think the learning in there is more accessible. I often think Sinclair nicked an awful lot from him - maybe not the romanticism but definitely the piling on of image and the psychgeographic stuff, and interestingly again i...

I am really like him. I’ve commented on other threads but I’m happy to pick up Anathemata and read it again - I’ve not read other stuff by him, I probably should.

Literally just read this in Painter’s first volume of his biog of Proust

Yep. You were one of them.

Yep. I’m very fond of the interwar period - recent book by Frances Spalding - The Real and the Romantic plus Alexandra Harris’ Romantic Moderns as well Christopher Neve’s Unquiet Landscape are all very illuminating especially about some of those who may dropped from the common consciousness

I saw a lot of his stuff down at Ditchling - also some lovely engravings and carving too.

Three? Try six - winter bike, summer bike, fixed, CX, MTB, TT, and two grand nowadays won’t get you much. The cost of an indoor trainer (not a Peloton!) will probably make most wince. A coke habit is probably cheaper.

The weather can fuck right off now.

I really rate Jones. You should check his art work as well. I’m loathe to say too much about him as I know there are a few genuine experts on him here - suffice it to say that both In Parenthesis and Anathemata are essential modernist texts.

reminded me of this about Rimbaud which i read in Painter's Proust biog yesterday 'He repaid one friend’s hospitality by defecating in the morning milk' no further explanation given....

yep, there's a saying in cycling - you can either fix them or you can ride them (never trust a racer to mend your bike)

Started using local travel agent again and its a revelation - cheaper flights, better hotels, they do all the ball ache booking, they've printed all boarding passes out etc and they threw in free transfers. I'm not sure where they are making their money but i'm not complaining

Finally finished the Sebald biog Speak Silence (@you )- I'm glad i had gone on a deep dive into him beforehand, it really made the whole experience much more interesting. The book is quite odd - she can't quite make up her mind what kind of biog she wants to write - a hagiography, a takedown, a...

Finally finished Musil’s Man Without Qualities. A high modernist novel set just before 1WW breaks out - very much a novel of ideas which might appeal to Thomas Mann or Kundera fans. Whilst set at same time as Radetsky March - which I also love - it’s quite different. The poor sod never finished...

It’s a dexys quote isn’t it? From This is what she’s like.

Dr No is more like Sidney Poitier. Very playful, as always lots going on but also rattling along plot wise. I think it’d appeal to the Pynchon fans especially as it’s got lots of maths jokes in it https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2022/11/dr-no-percival-everett-book-review/672006/

Stumbled across two bits from 89 - not a Dead era I usually listen to but a great Dear Mr Fantasy/Hey Jude and even lovelier a version Of Not Fade Away that that the audience pick up and won’t let the band stop - quite touching-the song becoming a love song from the fans that their love for the...

I think the Chorus is done so well in HV - basically saying ‘I’m going to make you use your imagination and I’m good enough to get you to imagine what needs to be imagined’ It’s also really good at compressing the plot to keep the action moving. He had a Chorus in HIV ii but I don’t think that...