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I tried and enjoyed some but the effort v reward didn’t match up. In the end I didn’t care enough - the level of abstraction just left me cold. And, for me, he doesn’t have the swing or the rhythms of someone like Pound. But I like to eavesdrop on your conversations and think it’s nice someone...

starting to get the first essays from Y12 kids pretending that GPt generated essays are their own - i am used to online plagiarism and regularly have to have the talk with my classes. This year it has been made harder as i cannot actually point to a specific source that has been stolen so i have...

Just seen the latest approach by the government- call off your strike and we’ll talk about possibly giving you a one off payment (that will come out of existing budgets ie while you selfish bastards get some rise the public service being provided will have to be cut to fund it.)

It seems to me that Helmut Newton’s influence is strong on these. With a pinch of Ellen von Unwerth - sorta sexy/sorta transgressive

About 3,000 pages split over 7 volumes.

On the last 200 pages of re-reading Proust. It’s been one of the best things I’ve done in years - over a four month period it means I feel like I’ve been swimming in that prose almost constantly. I suppose if Ulysses is the attempt to condense the whole world into one book then Proust is...

Like i say, there were incredibly influential - i gorged on the whole season of shows (it was my final year of my degree and i should have been studying) - i think 88 felt so far away from those heady revolutionary times - it was a glimmer of potential in a grey world of thatcherism and the...

Yeah I read that and Fup by him - was ok nothing special like you say YA Pynchon at best

Those C4 programmes in 88 were really significant for me - a whole slew of great movies plus proper documentary stuff ranging from roots of Baader Meinhof to Chicago 68, demos at American Embassy, Paris obviously but also lots of Situationist influenced things. There was a big conference at LSE...

i've been trying to track down a copy of that but its over £40 second hand on abe

I’ve got a really good live album from a London show in 82. In the sleeve notes he said he wanted to put it out to show he didn’t need to rely on Lloyd to make that distinctive sound. Felt a bit churlish to say. But it has got some fantastic tracks in it and is a reminder his solo stuff straight...

So I started this thread in 2008 as I was about to go on strike. Today I’m back on strike some 14/15 years later…

The English word 'found' is not only the past tense of 'find' but can also mean both 'establish' and 'cast metal'. These three uses are due to three different words of origin: 1) Old English findan 'to find' 2) Latin fundāre 'to lay a foundation' 3) Latin fundere 'to pour out'

I kind of recognised myself in some of that with regard to music - ahh youngster I can see why you like it but I can see where it all comes from if only you had my depth of knowledge/experience (obviously in not such a patronising manner but you get the drift) However I don’t feel it in Lit...

I’m reading Beckett’s essay on Proust as I’m just finishing my re-read of A Recherche - he’s very good on how Time works in the novel - it has that utterly rigorous and forensic nature that you get from his fiction - an unflinching and unwavering focus.

One of those nigh on perfect albums “ I remember How the darkness doubled I recall Lightning struck itself I was listening Listening to the rain I was hearing Hearing something else”

My mate works for AP - he’s got to interview Macron on Monday. Needless to say that viral reaction to the style guide has made his job a touch more difficult

Lucky enough to meet and share a couple of pints with Heaney - he was as kind and generous as he comes across on the page. Spent a big chunk of that time talking about Pound, Logue’s Homer and the benefits of learning poetry by heart.

Somewhere on one of these threads we talked about Frost at Midnight by STC it’s one of my favourites.