“Sod the wine, I want to suck on the writing. This man White is an instinctive writer, bloody rare to find one who actually pulls it off, as in still gets a meaning across with concision. Sharp arbitrage of speed and risk, closest thing I can think of to Cicero’s ‘motus continuum animi.’

Probably takes a drink or two to connect like that: he literally paints his senses on the page.”


DBC Pierre (Vernon God Little, Ludmila’s Broken English, Lights Out In Wonderland ... Winner: Booker prize; Whitbread prize; Bollinger Wodehouse Everyman prize; James Joyce Award from the Literary & Historical Society of University College Dublin)


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08 October 2011

BERT JANSCH - A MOURNFUL DRINKSTER

One of the team: Bert Jansch (3 November 1943 - 5 October 2011) knew his way around a bottle with a much deeper understanding than almost anybody I've met in the drinks business. Click the sweet fellow's image for some fond obituaries and reflections, peel open a your best malt whisky, play the Youtube Blackwaterside about sixty times, and try to work out what you're gonna do about it ...

2 comments:

Garvey's Ghost said...

takes me straight to Cluny Avenue Whitey

damn said...

As somebody's said in the comments on Youtube, "I've been so sad for the last two days"!