'i have been at some pains to map this area...' was the bit that reminded me of you! Also interesting to note 'The Big Store' - inspiration for nikki sudden / jacobitres? love that song.
One of the things it's necessary to do is to rid yourself of the habit of little treats and rewards. It's very important to be able to go without patting yourself on the head every five minutes. No cigerette. No Mr Kipling fondant fancy. No afternoon pint. No letting up of discipline. Nothing. You don't need a reward and you don't deserve one. You're not a puppy dog that is being trained. You don't need a dog biscuit after doing a trick.
wellbeing agenda is all about the little rewards. you should do an alternative wellbeing manifesto luka
The one thing I stuck at and finished through here was Paradise Lost, which was the best.
This year I actually got about a quarter into Ulysses then drifted off, even though I was loving it and becoming convinced it was the only book you'd need ever read.
Started The Waves last week and that got supplanted too fast to take hold, even though I found it fascinating.
He's brilliant at little phrases and stuff. Break through In grey room. All the stuff I've put in the tags. A bit like Mark e smith in that way. Little phrases that get stuck in your head.
There are spaces we visit with their own characteristics peculiar to them.
the shit bit i thought was really good in Gravity's rainbow is where he's talking about colonialism, and how the real reason for colonialism is the white man wanting to go back to a place where they can smell their own shit, that it's therefore about wanting to return in some way, like it's an admittance that all the 'progress' of europe is an iron cage. but i always thought that image he evokes was very good.