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nospater @gorokhovaya.bsky.social · 20d

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Ross Bolleter's Ruined Pianos - ABC listen

From Twenty-Five Years of The Music Show: Twenty-five at the piano Soundcloud.

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nospater @gorokhovaya.bsky.social · 25d

Wonderful. Although the subsequent books showed that it was never really a quartet - it was to be linked trilogies, in which each book in the second trilogy reworks the equivalent book in the first trilogy, deconstructing it and reinserting the outsiders...

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nospater @gorokhovaya.bsky.social · 25d

C. H. Sisson...

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nospater @gorokhovaya.bsky.social · 28d

Is this the most impressive opening paragraph in postwar literature?

I found the books in my school library as a teen in the 70s, and they taught me how to read. Fuchsia was the first female character I met in a book that I could totally identify with as another human (written by a man, obvs...)

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nospater @gorokhovaya.bsky.social · 28d

If you want to see Sting as Steerpike - he desperately wanted to play the role - watch the Dennis Potter film version of Brimstone & Treacle. Right from the opening credits it's basically a riff on Steerpike's role in Gormenghast...

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nospater @gorokhovaya.bsky.social · 28d

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nospater @gorokhovaya.bsky.social · Sep 12

Perhaps not, but it's interesting to see his natural charm rub up against Pinter's archness. I watched him in Terminal Man recently - blimey! - another surprising role...

nospater @gorokhovaya.bsky.social · Sep 12

I recall being surprised by what seemed to me a slightly stiff performance from Segal, then realised that he was presumably playing it in the Pinter style, which sits oddly with his natural charm...

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nospater @gorokhovaya.bsky.social · Sep 3

Your afterword for Lyonesse - the first thing I read from you - really was a lovely piece of writing...

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nospater @gorokhovaya.bsky.social · Aug 27

"FYI. The forthcoming Auteurs boxset has not been remastered. This is because the original mastering of the albums was great. Not Remastered should become a selling point."

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nospater @gorokhovaya.bsky.social · Aug 26

Reading @minutebook.bsky.social 's musical bio of David Ackles. A lovely book, measured, elegant and generous, like its subject. And it led me to the author's Ghostwriter recordings, which I didn't know and which are quite wonderful...

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nospater @gorokhovaya.bsky.social · Jun 23

To the song they're playing on the radio...

nospater @gorokhovaya.bsky.social · Jun 22

Thanks for reminding me of this. I saw it on first broadcast and was impressed.

The BBC Shakespeare version of King John used a similar approach. (The casting of Leonard Rossiter was inspired...)

Leonard Rossiter as King John in the BBC version (early 1980s)

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nospater @gorokhovaya.bsky.social · Apr 12

Glass raised! And then he was back in the UK for Edna the Inebriate Woman!

Ted Kotcheff, Sidney J. Furie, Norman Jewison - Canadian directors of that era were an interesting bunch, whose filmographies went all over the shop...

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nospater @gorokhovaya.bsky.social · Apr 4

They are beautiful, and in style unlike anything else that I know of - and they put me in mind of the view at night from my bedroom window, across the dark garden to the high window of the house over the back fence, when I was a child.

A lighted window in darkness is both comforting and eerie...

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nospater @gorokhovaya.bsky.social · Mar 31

Looks fascinating. Caine & Davenport is a great pairing...

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nospater @gorokhovaya.bsky.social · Mar 29

Like a flight of stairs?

Yes, I don't dislike it, but I find it odd, and intriguing. The aggressive hyphenation seems like it should be saying something, but I'm not sure what it is. It must be deliberate - it's only needed because the typeface is deliberately too big for its space...

nospater @gorokhovaya.bsky.social · Mar 29

What a remarkable title...

Original Gollancz cover for 'God in Hell' by Winifred Wilkinson

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nospater @gorokhovaya.bsky.social · Mar 29

The hyphenation of the Schnitzler title is a little odd...

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · Mar 28

On this week’s newsletter, Anthony Burgess himself introduces Earthly Powers, his Booker-prize nominated novel about the eternal conflict between good and evil by way of Windy City gangsters, American cults and Papal intrigue

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nospater @gorokhovaya.bsky.social · Mar 28

Why did he write it? To win the Booker? Oh dear. I love Burgess, and I read Earthly Powers when it first came out - what a doorstop of book! - and I enjoyed it but wasn't convinced. It felt like Burgess giving us what we expected, what he could do so well, in spades, rather than surprising us...

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nospater @gorokhovaya.bsky.social · Mar 13

AI literature is surely - by definition! - the quintessence of mediocrity...

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nospater @gorokhovaya.bsky.social · Mar 9

His real name was Fabian...

nospater @gorokhovaya.bsky.social · Mar 5

It seems to be from Manon Lescaut - the phrase is elsewhere translated as "I boasted a fine head of hair...". Whoever did this translation seems to have been in a hurry...

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nospater @gorokhovaya.bsky.social · Mar 4

It may have written itself, but it was helped along by Ronald Harwood & N. F. Simpson!

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