“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 August 2017

THINKING, THINKING

Stanislav Potenko painted this. A 1961 vintage Muscovite who couldn't stop painting, he drew the ire of his Mum and Dad who put him into the turbine construction department of Moscow Machine Construction Institute, then the army. There, of course, he was appointed painter in the Officers'  Club. He is now a designer. I really like his work. That'll be a vodka and soda, thanks. And here's a bonus one:

1 comment:

blackie said...

looks like women in wine movement whiteman

August 10, 2017 at 1:26 PM

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