“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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18 December 2008

ANCIENT FLAVOUR WHEEL PROTOTYPE


DRINKSTER has just unearthed this early prototype of the flavour wheel. While digital hand-held computers seem set to replace these quaint old devices, we feel certain they will eventually have their day, as they require no batteries, are fully water-resistant, and are available in Braille forms for those whose eyes have been damaged by the glory of it all.

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