tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post5448919081832153588..comments2024-03-27T20:34:09.464+01:00Comments on zmkc: Battered Penguins XIVzmkchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-39790411714935129142011-11-18T06:27:42.499+01:002011-11-18T06:27:42.499+01:00That is really very kind of you. Ah, yes, I get th...That is really very kind of you. Ah, yes, I get that sentence now - though it kind of worked already in a stream-of-conciousness sort of a way!Gadjo Dilohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08998278830936531990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-38734742108676646762011-11-14T07:45:34.377+01:002011-11-14T07:45:34.377+01:00insert this phrase into above comment wherever you...insert this phrase into above comment wherever you think appropriate: 'thing in it. She wore'zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-14914470082950811462011-11-14T07:44:30.332+01:002011-11-14T07:44:30.332+01:00I wish I'd taken something else to read though...I wish I'd taken something else to read though, Gadj. I thought Lucky Jim was his best novel, until I tried to read it again. I never read the book but only saw the telly version of Old Devils, which I enjoyed a lot. I think Amis is tame compared to Burchill who reminds me of someone I was at boarding school with who was said to have had a dalliance with Prince Charles - and did score an invitation to his first wedding, so perhaps there was some a lot of black eyeliner at all times, even though she was only 15 and we were at boarding school in rural New South Wales. I just re-read one of your old blogposts (headscarves) and thought what a loss you are to the blogosphere.zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-34217463597857271942011-11-14T07:15:27.308+01:002011-11-14T07:15:27.308+01:00Hmm, Marty Amis. His dad wrote possibly his best n...Hmm, Marty Amis. His dad wrote possibly his best novel (The Old Devils) when he was in his mid-60s, and Bert Russell himself wrote loads of great stuff in old age. It's always seemed to me that Martin Amis must be somehow genetically related to Julie Birchill - trenchancy is everything and stuff the rest. A weekend alone in a hotel in Chartres sound rather delightful, though.Gadjo Dilohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08998278830936531990noreply@blogger.com