“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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19 June 2017

TIME OZ DUOPOLY TOOK ITS AMAZON PILL

When George Grainger Aldridge drew this years ago, the barrel represented the entire Australian wine industry. Tonight, that peerie tun is an explosive depth charge dropped by the invading USA Dreadnought, Amazon, and it's gonna blow that lazy dumb greedy antique reptilian head off. Like in the beginning of a severe international shortage of premium wine grapes, ongoing crop failure through climate chaos and the collapse of the UK market as she stood since the suicide of the British Empire. 

Batten the hatches. Regroup your shit. Stand well back. Good luck.

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