Monthly Archives: November 2009
holdstock dies
Rob Holdstock is dead. I can’t quite take it in. Mythago Wood was one of the classic English fantasies of the last 100 years, & Rob one of the most powerful engines of fantasy of his generation.
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bring it on
When I was running in the early 80s, a kind of cold focus would come over me. The centre of the thing was that you were on your own. Perhaps when you started out you didn’t feel particularly well; or–more … Continue reading
Filed under lost & found
writing about writers
Sometimes in late November the urge to pour Jack Daniels on your breakfast is difficult to resist. Today I biked to Richmond Park & ran up & down the same hill for 20 minutes instead. It’s not Sintra; but there’s … Continue reading
Filed under books & reviews
pearlant notebook
Complexity, weirdness, characterisations like little stained glass sideshows. Motives don’t need so much defining as presenting in action. Characters do things because they want to. That’s all we know. Equally, the text shows you something because it wants to. I … Continue reading
Filed under pearlant notebook
perdidos e achados
Granite boulders, Sintra, Portugal. Walking past a car, Sintra. Specialist roofer, Quinta da Regaleira. Detail of protection system using a fixed line & descenders. Rooftop doll, Bica, Lisbon. Lost & found, Lisbon Portela Airport.
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under the dome
My review of it may well be in the Grauniad tomorrow.
Filed under books & reviews, the horror
more great fantasy
Watching: the first series of The Ren & Stimpy Show. C doesn’t get it. I’m not sure I get it myself anymore. What’s funny about watching the lungs of a badly-drawn psychotic chihuahua come out through his mouth ? I … Continue reading
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