“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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03 January 2018

NEW YEAR SUPERMOON ON YANGARRA

Looking across the young bush vine Grenache: the Supermoon was furtive last night (8:54PM), but to me it was still the real beginning of 2018. I don't mind a soft start. The season has been intermittent, with the odd quite hot spell followed by cool and often damp periods, fortunately followed in turn by drying breezy weather.

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