“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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10 December 2014

BEST EXMESS CARD THUS FAR

That inveterate bush traveller, Patricia Sprague, made this photo of of a typically trippy Australian bush bloom in the Porogorups, right in the deep south west of Western Australia, where the Indian and Great Southern Oceans collide, and the Riesling is perfect. There's another one below, which Pat calls 'Nature's Knitting':

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