“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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16 September 2016

ADELAIDE HILLS GET BIG RINSE

The Onkaparinga yesterday at Clarendon ... the Mount Lofty Ranges/Adelaide Hills are having the wettest spring any of the old-timers can recall ... this means the 2018 vintage will be the one to wait for ... photo Mick Wordley ... and here below is a lucky mob of us having lunch a bit further downstream on a finer day ... Off Piste Tours can get you in here in good weather, otherwise it's a mighty climb through the National Park ... but you wouldna wanted to try that on yesterday ... the Gorge was like a milkshake!

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