Books I've actually finished lately: 75

Books I've actually finished lately: 74

Smyth's Sayings

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to buy white BMWs.

'If transgender fisting occurs earlier in the history of the novel...

I would be surprised.'

And other musings upon Ulysses, by Adam Thirwell.

Books I've actually finished lately: 73

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Wailing Goggle-Man, n. Bono

[courtesy Sherlock]

Books I've actually finished lately: 72

Books I've actually finished lately: 71

I actually finished a book today

for the first time in weeks.

Because I quit my job.

First... and last?

'Some Mungril Italian Poet' - or; How To Write A Pasticcio

Pick out about an hundred Italian Airs from several Authors, good, or bad, it signifies nothing. Among these, make use of fifty five, or fifty six, of such as please your Fancy best, and Marshall ’em in the manner you think most convenient. When this is done, you must employ a Poet to write some English Words, the Airs of which are to be adapted to the Italian Musick. In the next place you must agree with some Composer to provide the Recitative … When this is done, you must make a Bargain with some Mungril Italian Poet to Translate the Part of the English that is to be Perform’d in Italian; and then deliver it into the Hands of some Amanuensis, that understands Musick better than your self, to Transcribe the Score, and the Parts. 

- via Alexandra Coghlan, in The Spectator

John Jeremiah Sullivan

on winning a Windham Campbell prize:

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obv-servation, n. shit wot didn't need saying

On my Samsung Galaxy tablet

Which has been misbehaving again...

Surely not...?!

The heirs of Bomber Harris are not squeamish about the far end of a bomb site...

- Simon Jenkins, in The Spectator