“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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24 February 2016

HITTING THE TILES AT DAPHNE

DRINKSTER loves this 2nd century AD mosaic - of a lass ready for springtime 
revelry - from the floor of a Roman villa at Daphne, a billionaire's resort near 
Antioch. It's in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, thanks to the 
Americans who dug it up and stole it in 1937. PS: See what happens when you put 
a square obect smack in the middle of such a rectangle? It looks like it's closer
to the bottom, inviting one to swoon and spill, especially in a heady spring.

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