Like Ondaatje and Cercas, Remarque’s The road back / Der Weg zurück (1931) mixes fact and fiction, but in a way I find admirable and moving. There’s never the sense of fiddling for self-aggrandisement, merely the kind of twiddling that is inevitable when you sign up to write a story in so many thousand words.…
Dear Tony, drummer known for reasons obvious in a glance as “Whippet”, did you ever escape from Hartshead Moor services on the M62, where we (intolerant drunken bastards) left you in the middle of the night and a cotton jacket and a snowstorm, all because we imagined you were an utter twat? We are so…
Is that one discovers splendid loonies like Lars Vilks. Neither had I really touched Charlie Hebdo before that shit -I’d always turned to Canard enchaîné– and I’m grateful to the retards for broadening my reading.
All Spanish men scratch their nuts in libraries and other alarming situations. In Britain we whistle in the dark. Such behaviour should be known and tolerated.
Sebastian Payne: There was one hick up: the cinema was far too small for the media pack who journeyed down to [Canvey Island, Essex]. This seems to be a 21st century eggcorn.
Well, celebrate it later, obviously. The church calendar is full of appropriate saints, February 22 has a couple of particularly good ones, and Sunday is in general better than Saturday for this kind of thing. You could let yourselves be led by Baradates, who took “God is love” pretty seriously: Baradates lived in a tiny…
Mandan email: Para evitar posibles importes acumulados en sus facturas, le rogamos que nos facilite la lectura real de su contador de electricidad. etc etc Pero tendrán bastantes clientes, por lo cual: Delivery has failed to these recipients or distribution lists: Lectura luz aportada por cliente a Endesa The recipient’s mailbox is full and can’t…
