03 July 2014
DRINKSTER ENGINEMAN HITS THE TILES
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Apologies to all DRINKSTER readers - the author has been flat on his back after a series of nasty ailments laid him very low some weeks back. It seems critical bits of one will re-emerge sufficiently to rekindle the spirit. Stay tuned, but watch your step. This floor's dangerously slippery.
by John Peake - about 1955, Broken Hill, Australia. House paint on Masonite, 163 x 110cm. from the author's collection
“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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"Taste is first and foremost distaste - disgust and visceral intolerance of the taste of others." PIERRE BOURDIEU
"Relishing the power concealment brings, I refuse to hide." PHILIP WHITE
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"After enough years newspapermen begin to pall on other newspapermen; they begin to take their good qualities for granted and wince at their shortcomings, of which the most common are a vanity that sometimes borders on the thespian and a sort of perpetual mental adolescence that I think stems from starting a fresh story every day or every week or month and never having time to get to the bottom of anything. They forget that newspapermen as a class have a yearning for truth as involuntary as a hophead’s addiction to junk. The question of whether the junkie really loves hop is academic; he can’t get along without it. A newspaperman may write a lie to hold his job, but he won’t believe it, and the necessity outrages him so that he craves truth all the more thereafter. A few newspapermen lie to get on in the world, but it outrages them, too, and I have never known a dishonest journalist who wasn’t patently an unhappy bastard."
A.J. Liebling,
war correspondent,
New Yorker,
January 1942.
HEALTH WARNING
"Take the hair", it is well written,
"of the dog by which you're bitten.
Work off one wine by his brother,
chase one poison with another".
Antiphanes, 479BC
HEALTH WARNING
"Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love." Shiva to Solomon, Song of Songs, which is Solomon's, ch2v5
Coda
(for Laurence Smulders
4 April 1932 - 28 June 1997)
Some go without any money,
Some go without any clothes;
Some go like ants stuck in honey,
Some go where nobody goes.
Philip White
GOOD ISLAMIC ADVICE
“Ale, especially that made from barley, clogs the sinews, causes headache and congestion of the head, yet it overstimulates the action of the kidneys, and, when drunk to excess, lowers the temperature. That, however, which is brewed from wheat, and is flavoured with mint and parsley, is judged better for everybody. Still, in the case of persons exposed to the sun’s heat, in feverish conditions and sultry weather, its use is inadvisable.”
THE BUCK SHOW
by John Peake - about 1955, Broken Hill, Australia. House paint on Masonite, 163 x 110cm. from the author's collection
4 comments:
Welcome back. Good to hear you are on the mend Whitey. You look like you have got a bit of colour back !! Cheers Milt
Missing your regular writing. Get well soon.
Hi Philip,
I have only discovered your blog in the last twelve months or so but I wish I had discovered it a lot sooner. Your recommendations have been a great boon to my wine education as I am now starting to understand how a great wine tastes - and it does not need to be expensive to be considered a great wine!
Even my wife does not mind me buying your recommendations as she also now knows that we will be buying exceptional Australian wine that she enjoys as much as I do.
We also like the fact that we are supporting dedicated, passionate and talented producers.
We hope that you will keep writing your blog for many years to come and hopefully you are now fully recovered from your recent travails.
Many thanks
Thanks all. That's the first time I've missed three weeks of columns in well over 30 years. I'm gradually getting my strength, organoleptic sensibilities and brain back: Stay away from Norovirus, Rotovirus and viral pneumonia, there's a dear/s.
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