“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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22 December 2011

WHAT TO DO THIS WEEKEND - ARCHIVE















WHAT TO DO?  TRACK DOWN A COUPLE OF LASSES YOU CAN TRUST AND HAVE A DRINK IN ALL YOUR FAVOURITE BARS ... WE DID 21 THIS DAY, ABOUT 1978, TO CELEBRATE SUZIE SIOUX'S TWENTY FIRST... BEGAN AND FINISHED, LITERALLY, IN THE BRITISH ... BY BACCHUS, THAT WAS A PUB! BEAN AND THE WILLIAMSES AND TWO MORE WHITE BROTHERS ROLLED IN THAT NIGHT IN THE 62 BEL AIR AND SAVED US FROM THE ADELAIDE UNIVERSITY ROWING CLUB, WHICH HAD WON SOME BLING, AND WAS DEEPLY INTERESTED IN THE FEMALE SECTOR ... VERY QUIET HILLBILLY VEE  FORMATION MOVED THROUGH THE DOOR LIKE THE RESTRICTION OF THE HOURGLASS THEN EXPANDED ... NOTHING TOO ABRUPT ... COOL RETRIEVAL FROM BAR SUDDENLY SILENT ... MIRACLE FROM ABOVE ... OR MAYBE BELOW ... THERE WERE NO MOBILE PHONES ... CHEVVY WAS RUMBLING OUT THE FRONT ...WE DROVE OFF REAL SLOW, WITH GREAT CONFIDENCE ... LASSES INTACT, ALL THE HATS ON STRAIGHT ... BETTER EXTRACTION THAN I EVER SAW THE COMPANY MANAGE...  DON'T DRIVE!!!

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