Shout-out to a strange and wonderful book…
A great writer can make a great novel about anything - Robert Graves wrote Antigua Penny Puce in the 1930s, and you would not guess what the title means. It is an excellent, hilarious story about family inheritance, sibling disputes, auctions court cases clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2026/01/anti...
Antigua Penny Puce by Robert Graves
**********As of now, Friday 23rd Jan, there seems to be a problem with comments and replies on blogger - terrible news! The comments lately...
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January 23, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Shout-out to a strange and wonderful book…
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Plus a power station, and both by Giles Gilbert Scott.
January 19, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Plus a power station, and both by Giles Gilbert Scott.
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look upon my works, ye mighty, and let me know what you think
January 12, 2026 at 7:37 PM
look upon my works, ye mighty, and let me know what you think
the wild horse in us
January 8, 2026 at 7:18 PM
the wild horse in us
New Directions finally releasing titles of forthcoming previously unpublished Henry Green novels
Muttering, Hopping, Onelegged, Racing
December 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
New Directions finally releasing titles of forthcoming previously unpublished Henry Green novels
Louis Moholo Octet - Wedding Hymn (Spirits Rejoice! 1978)
YouTube video by pipefx64
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December 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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“I wish to God you could pay more money.”
I wrote about F Scott Fitzgerald’s Christmas wish, and how his difficult final year led him to produce some of his best work: the irresistible, cynical, revealing and very funny Pat Hobby stories.
I wrote about F Scott Fitzgerald’s Christmas wish, and how his difficult final year led him to produce some of his best work: the irresistible, cynical, revealing and very funny Pat Hobby stories.
When F Scott Fitzgerald’s Christmas wish came true
The Pat Hobby stories about a washed-up writer in Hollywood were written to make money fast — they are also the final flowering of Fitzgerald’s eccentric genius
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December 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
“I wish to God you could pay more money.”
I wrote about F Scott Fitzgerald’s Christmas wish, and how his difficult final year led him to produce some of his best work: the irresistible, cynical, revealing and very funny Pat Hobby stories.
I wrote about F Scott Fitzgerald’s Christmas wish, and how his difficult final year led him to produce some of his best work: the irresistible, cynical, revealing and very funny Pat Hobby stories.
“la roue du devenir”
“the wheel of Fluxion”
“the wheel of Fluxion”
December 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
“la roue du devenir”
“the wheel of Fluxion”
“the wheel of Fluxion”
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Well I made a list of books I couldn't forget this year... and left a few off (which means I will open the new year with another list! like a dog! ) nevertheless I'm leaving this here for those who love books and living like dawgs in the mind of Kafka!
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2025 in 99 books. — alina Ştefănescu
Regardez-moi bien! Je suis idiot, je suis un farceur, je suis un fumiste. Regardez-moi bien! Je suis laid, mon visage n’a pas d’expression, je suis petit. Je suis comme vous tous!’ — Tristan Tzara, ...
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December 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Noël
(à tréma, comme deux flammes de bougie)
(à tréma, comme deux flammes de bougie)
December 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Noël
(à tréma, comme deux flammes de bougie)
(à tréma, comme deux flammes de bougie)
Wallace Stevens, from “The Pure Good of Theory”
December 18, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Wallace Stevens, from “The Pure Good of Theory”
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December 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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December 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Fellini: “It is natural that when a person is being totally honest, he shouldn’t be understood. Lies are understood by everyone.”
An incredibly poignant moment in 8 1/2, hidden away without explanation.
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Yes. No.
Looks like I’m definitely stuck teaching my Films on Film course again next year, but it’s no tragedy, I enjoy it and I can swap out the films each time. I suspect though that I’l…
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November 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Fellini: “It is natural that when a person is being totally honest, he shouldn’t be understood. Lies are understood by everyone.”
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"You've got podcasters mate" www.tiktok.com/@barryferns/...
March 25, 2025 at 8:27 AM
"You've got podcasters mate" www.tiktok.com/@barryferns/...
Good morning!
C'est le plus beau
Et c'est le plus triste
C'est le plus beau
Paysage du monde
youtu.be/RhChLrhTJDE?...
C'est le plus beau
Et c'est le plus triste
C'est le plus beau
Paysage du monde
youtu.be/RhChLrhTJDE?...
John Cage Bubblegum
YouTube video by Stereolab - Topic
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November 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Good morning!
C'est le plus beau
Et c'est le plus triste
C'est le plus beau
Paysage du monde
youtu.be/RhChLrhTJDE?...
C'est le plus beau
Et c'est le plus triste
C'est le plus beau
Paysage du monde
youtu.be/RhChLrhTJDE?...
“…no more vainglorious than the poor slaves of the hypodermic needle or the pint-pot.”
November 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
“…no more vainglorious than the poor slaves of the hypodermic needle or the pint-pot.”
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a poem I adore for this early evening by Jean Follain
October 31, 2025 at 10:54 PM
a poem I adore for this early evening by Jean Follain
Post a perfect album from 1989
October 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Post a perfect album from 1989
“Maria lit candles in silver-branched candlesticks. They were old candles, and had burned unevenly, so that the flames quivered in the air on either side of their silver stems; like someone balancing with outstretched arms on a rope.”
October 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
“Maria lit candles in silver-branched candlesticks. They were old candles, and had burned unevenly, so that the flames quivered in the air on either side of their silver stems; like someone balancing with outstretched arms on a rope.”
Jean Follain klaxon!
A small garden of chives
trembles beneath the stars.
- Jean Follain, “Landscape of Rural Hardship” (translated by Andrew Seguin and forthcoming from Song Cave)
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trembles beneath the stars.
- Jean Follain, “Landscape of Rural Hardship” (translated by Andrew Seguin and forthcoming from Song Cave)
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/10/7/images-and-music-845t7
Jean Follain. — alina Ştefănescu
We measure depth as a fathom of waters as a keeper of otters as a fear of disorder as a phantom of operas An exclamation point in the shape of a question mark against the earth and your flesh against...
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October 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Jean Follain klaxon!
Early in the morning here but this has already made my day
October 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Early in the morning here but this has already made my day