Yeah, I loved that piece. Am planning to ask people if there was a big crowd there whenever they tell me they went to something now.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 19 April 2019 10:41 (five years ago) link
london review of LOL
Our event with Terry Eagleton on HUMOUR on 10 June is nearly sold out - last few tickets available here: https://t.co/xwReBVT2JC pic.twitter.com/L7YbWi7QqA— LRB Bookshop (@LRBbookshop) May 19, 2019
― mark s, Sunday, 19 May 2019 18:57 (four years ago) link
Thanks for the link - going to this with my partner now
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 19 May 2019 22:14 (four years ago) link
I also go.
― the pinefox, Monday, 20 May 2019 10:14 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1cVl7KHsGA
― mark s, Monday, 20 May 2019 10:48 (four years ago) link
what's the deal with theory *slapbass flourish*
― mark s, Monday, 20 May 2019 10:53 (four years ago) link
you-know-who is blogging GoT: i am reaching for a lanchester/lannister joke but luckily someone just rolled me out of the moon door
― mark s, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 15:51 (four years ago) link
he has also watched some other TV shows
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 16:09 (four years ago) link
Do you go to TE's Humour bash Mark S ?
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 07:53 (four years ago) link
I dug "you know nothing, john lanchester" from a while back
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 11:55 (four years ago) link
what language is the pinefox now posting in before he reaches for babelfish?
(i'm out of town that day i think, in hastings with my sister)
― mark s, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 12:01 (four years ago) link
To be fair, that Lanchester piece seemed fine. I have never seen GoT, so I may well not know what I'm talking about.
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 23:33 (four years ago) link
Mark S I learned it from my friend R J G
― the pinefox, Thursday, 23 May 2019 08:20 (four years ago) link
The GOT piece is fine. I liked the "Tony Blair or Ladyhitler" line. But even when he's OTM, he's a bit muddy. It's not so much "John, you took the words out of mouth" as "John, you took the words out of my mouth, added some syllables, and made them a tiny bit less clear"
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 23 May 2019 10:23 (four years ago) link
Crosspost to the a "a box of ___ every month" thread?
www.londonreviewbookbox.co.uk
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 9 October 2019 10:15 (four years ago) link
Letter commissioned for the first issue:
SIR: The London Review doesn’t have, or intend to seek, an Arts Council subsidy. This means that the envious, the indolent, the mischievous must, if they wish to be damaging, take issue with the journal itself, and not with the way it is financed. Most writers believe that they are (or, given the chance, could be) terrific editors, and they are particularly contemptuous of the skills that go into producing journals from which their own works are excluded. Arts Council grants, I’ve come to see, make it all too easy for the whimper of neglect to masquerade as public-spirited dismay. The London Review won’t have to get annoyed about this kind of thing.
It will have other things to get annoyed about, but many of these can be seen as pretty well routine: the publishers will be cagey, the librarians won’t want to know, the backbiters will go on about élitism, metropolitan cliquishness, lack of compassion for the avant-garde, the sycophants will wait and see. The appalling thing about our ‘literary culture’ at the moment is that a large section of its representatives seem to get more of a kick out of seeing things collapse than they do out of seeing them survive. Sooner or later (and I would like to think that this might be the moment) they must ask themselves if they really do want another serious reviewing journal; or if, in their heart of hearts, they prefer to sit around complaining that they haven’t got one.
Ian Hamilton
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v01/n01/letters
― the pinefox, Monday, 28 October 2019 11:00 (four years ago) link
they shd commission a letter from ilx for the whateverth issue
― mark s, Monday, 28 October 2019 11:11 (four years ago) link
Thank you for your service Ian. We're gonna nationalise it now and lock all the white literary London boys now.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 28 October 2019 11:46 (four years ago) link
Astonishing letters-page controversy:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v10/n03/christopher-norris/paul-de-mans-past
― the pinefox, Monday, 28 October 2019 12:17 (four years ago) link
yeah i remember all that de man stuff very clearly :(
― mark s, Monday, 28 October 2019 12:42 (four years ago) link
Salad days
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 28 October 2019 13:38 (four years ago) link
just finally finished reading empson's seven types of ambiguity properly for the first time (only ever skipped thru bits of it before): not always crystal clear but good not bad
was a bit startled to discover it had an index, something i was convinced i had claimed that it did not here in this very thread: rereading i discover it was the pinefox who said this (his copy had an editor;s note saying not) and that i then posted a link to an on-line version which did
anyway i came to post the following line on proust as i felt it was funny and apposite, only to find i already posted it three years ago lol: "Parodies are appreciative criticisms in this sense, and much of Proust reads like the work of a superb appreciative critic upon a novel which has unfortunately not survived" -- thats right william
(i can only think that three years ago i couldn't locate my physical copy, not at all an unusual situation in my house)
― mark s, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 13:45 (two years ago) link
the unsurviving novel is proust
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 20:04 (two years ago) link
given where the sentence comes in the book it's in, empson is kind of saying "it me, i'm proust"
― mark s, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 20:08 (two years ago) link
je suis etc
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 20:11 (two years ago) link
CALL ME MADELEINE
― mark s, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 20:25 (two years ago) link
Some days the novel reads you.
― dow, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 23:13 (two years ago) link