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Librarian of unfinished books. Somewhere in Western Australia...
'Ruderal' is the word I've been trying to think of...
December 6, 2025 at 11:51 AM
'Ruderal' is the word I've been trying to think of...
For me it's the most memorable description in the book. In the early chapters, leaving the Shire, JRRT tends to fumble the big scenes a little, I think, but he gets the small details perfectly...
December 6, 2025 at 11:13 AM
For me it's the most memorable description in the book. In the early chapters, leaving the Shire, JRRT tends to fumble the big scenes a little, I think, but he gets the small details perfectly...
The description of the approach to the Old Forest, through the cutting and the stone tunnel and the weedy liminal margin, with its unsettling history, is exquisitely and naturalistically described...
December 6, 2025 at 10:35 AM
The description of the approach to the Old Forest, through the cutting and the stone tunnel and the weedy liminal margin, with its unsettling history, is exquisitely and naturalistically described...
Rave On, Bill Blake!
November 28, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Rave On, Bill Blake!
Fantastic flawed film. I feel it might have been more successful if it had been released five years earlier. The costume choices would certainly have fitted better...
November 23, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Fantastic flawed film. I feel it might have been more successful if it had been released five years earlier. The costume choices would certainly have fitted better...
Same here. "My! You've got a spotty bum..." 🙂
November 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Same here. "My! You've got a spotty bum..." 🙂
It's the double-reed that does it, causing a backlog of breath (affects oboists, too) - and the constant obsessive worrying about reed health...
November 18, 2025 at 11:46 AM
It's the double-reed that does it, causing a backlog of breath (affects oboists, too) - and the constant obsessive worrying about reed health...
Yes, it's quite remarkable, with a beautiful sense of detail (the way to do epic is to concentrate on the small stuff) - something of the feel of @adamroberts.bsky.social 's Yellow Blue Tibia, so far, but Tsarist...
November 18, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Yes, it's quite remarkable, with a beautiful sense of detail (the way to do epic is to concentrate on the small stuff) - something of the feel of @adamroberts.bsky.social 's Yellow Blue Tibia, so far, but Tsarist...
Thanks for the recommendation. I looked it up, and it had 'tchinovnik' in the first paragraph and so I bought it immediately - the ebook is very reasonably priced (thanks @headofzeus.bsky.social!) Wonderful, so far...
November 17, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Thanks for the recommendation. I looked it up, and it had 'tchinovnik' in the first paragraph and so I bought it immediately - the ebook is very reasonably priced (thanks @headofzeus.bsky.social!) Wonderful, so far...
The only problem is that I now can't watch Fiennes in other roles without being aware that under the cassock of the worried cleric or the tweed suit of the ageing choirmaster is the body of a Greek god...
November 15, 2025 at 11:54 PM
The only problem is that I now can't watch Fiennes in other roles without being aware that under the cassock of the worried cleric or the tweed suit of the ageing choirmaster is the body of a Greek god...
Re-reading is the truest form of reading. A first reading is really just preparation for re-reading. And if it isn't worth re-reading, it wasn't worth reading...
October 22, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Re-reading is the truest form of reading. A first reading is really just preparation for re-reading. And if it isn't worth re-reading, it wasn't worth reading...
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...
September 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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...
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...)
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...)
September 21, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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...)
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...)
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...
September 21, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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...
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...
September 12, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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...
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...
September 12, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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...
Your afterword for Lyonesse - the first thing I read from you - really was a lovely piece of writing...
September 3, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Your afterword for Lyonesse - the first thing I read from you - really was a lovely piece of writing...
"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."
August 27, 2025 at 9:39 AM
"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."