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:lol: Oh, must I? I’ll have you know I’ve been down to six or seven pots a day, just recently. Jenkins is beginning to think he’s on his hols.

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@Could you please pass me the Pepper? wrote:

Excerpts..

“But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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@Dr Pepper wrote:

Fave Books?..

An invitation to ramble all day. I’ll confine myself, for now, to mentioning probably the most influential work on my life to date, Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco. It’s not easy, but, if you can stick with it, it will innoculate you to the evil that is pot boilers like The DaVinci Code. And you will be glad. Glad, I say.

@Chile Pepper wrote:

Fave Authors?..

The aforementioned Mr Eco, certainly. The Island of the Day Before and Baudolino are further examples of his genius. Those masters of spine chilling, don’t you dare look over your shoulder, the world is not as it seems concoctions MR James and HP Lovecraft would also deserve a mention. Hunter S Thompson and Ernest Hemingway were marvellous writers of prose that might swallow you whole. Anyone who ignores the work of George Orwell is a mighty fool. PK Dick could be, by turns, infuriating and mind expanding but his madness was more than worth sharing. Enough.

@Bell Pepper wrote:

Reviews..

Gloriana or the Unfulfilled Queen by Michael Moorcock is a book I first read as a teenager and have only recently re-read. I remember enjoying it immensely back then. Now new depths have been revealed, new messages and new subversions. Fantasy is all too often a lazy rehashing of Tolkien, Moorcock has never fallen for it.

@White Pepper wrote:

Recommendations..

For Whom the Bell Tolls. You’ve probably never read a war story like this before.

@Ground Black Pepper wrote:

Books to Film..

Bladerunner, from PK Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is the best example I can recall of a film delivering more than a book. Flukey genius. Harrison Ford’s laconic Magnum PI type narration was done in an actor’s sulk yet works perfectly.

@S-S-S-Salt an’ Pepper’s here wrote:

Excerpts..

“Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop. Your normal speeder will panic and immediately pull over to the side. This is wrong. It arouses contempt in the cop-heart. Make the bastard chase you. He will follow.”
HS Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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I think it all depends on the spirit the criticism is made in. Telling someone their work reads as if has been written by an emotionally retarded fifth former and is just plain shyte, whilst it may be true, is not helpful to anyone.

When you’ve something to say, constructive criticism is the order of the day, I think.

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:lol: Is it Spring? There seems to be a touch of friskiness in t’air.

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:D I’ll have a baby. Why not, eh?

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Re: Card playing jiggery pokery allusions, it occurred to me as well that racists are increasingly likely to play the Race Card Card. This tictac involves accusing anyone who might note the racist’s true agenda of playing the race card.

I propose the unwieldy Race Card Card should be known as the Rick Card, after Rick Mayall’s famous Young Ones character.

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:lol: Just edit by Matthew Arnold and put Massive Attack. No one’ll notice.

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Ah, Aunty. Ta, Ruby. I was wondering whether to gamble on an early Spring.

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I’ve a first edition by the great Matthew Arnold, On the Study of Celtic Literature. Fine stuff for its age.

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