January 2011
6 posts
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Kafka and 3D Cinema
The literary theorist George Earley says of Dickens: “He’s amazing. All you need to know about Dickens is that Kafka liked him. Anything Kafka liked is amazing.” (from George Earley In Conversation: 1988-95, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 1998)
But is that really true? Was everything Kafka liked actually amazing? I mean to dispute Earley’s suggestion by bringing to light disturbing...
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Scottish Monasteries Kabbalah
So what I’ve done, right, is I’ve taken note of all the monastic institutions (NOT secular colleges or hospices) that appear on my ‘Monastic Map of Britain, Northern Sheet’ that I have on my walls (and of these only the ones in Scotland, I might add), and, using a clever grid system, have assigned each monastery a number based on their geography as well as a special Symbol...
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Lovely Gordon Brown
Remember how lovely Gordon Brown was? St Gordon of Brown. Sadly missed :’(
Classic Gordon.
The smile that melted a thousand hearts.
“Focus, George.”
“But anyway to answer your question Mr President, it’s THIS big (flaccid).”
Champagne socialist.
“Do you reckon this is what Michael Gove’s ‘sex face’ looks like,...
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Lionel Asbo, or Virtue Rewarded
Following Martin Amis’s revelation to the Independent on Sunday the other day that the title of his new novel was to be ‘Lionel Asbo’ and that it would be (who knew?!) a “devastating portrayal” of British society, A Sensitive Man can excitedly reveal that we are serialising a novel called ‘Lionel Asbo, or Virtue Rewarded’ in our pages over the coming...
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Enduring Multiple Loves
Ian McEwans: bourgeois exponents of the shallow, collective novel where everyone is so certain of their uniqueness as collective persons.
Plot summary of his acclaimed 1997 ‘Enduring Multiple Loves’:
On a beautiful, cloudless day, a married pair of collective entities approaching their middle age celebrate their union with a picnic. The first entity, the all-male grouping ‘Joe...