“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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25 June 2017

GEORGE GOES DOWN THE BEACH


































When George Grainger Aldridge goes to the beach, he looks for more than waves. Which is just as well, really, because he seems to think the nearest beach is in the Northern Territory ... This postcard indicates fairly risky behaviour, however: In this instance, he's obviously got his back to the water ... I spose it pays to keep an eye out in every direction in that sort of country ... If the lizards don't getcha the humans will ...  
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... much better to set back rehydratin, keeping an eye out for the Japanese ... or the English 

... and I told him to take his little guide book ... 

Stevie Goldsmith in a Vernon Ah Kee tee

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