Sinister: Beatniks, lemurs, the usual...

[Peter Miller and/or Arantxa Ubieta]

stephen troussé wrote:

> Mighty quiet round these parts all of a sudden, ain't it?
>
> Here's a thing. My friend Jo has just lent me this book by
> Toby Litt called
> 'Beatniks', about a couple of guys who refuse to
> acknowledge the existence
> of anything after that day in 1966 when Mr Zimmerman
> pranged his pushbike.
> So much so that when they decide to drive to Brighton,
> they realise that
> they can't take the M25 because that would be, like,
> acknowledging that the
> world had moved on in the last thirty years. 'They're
> kinda like Belle and
> Sebastian', says Jo, 'Cos  the world hasn't changed for
> them since the
> Go-Betweens left Postcard!' Hmmm
.

This sounds like a good book. Is it?

>
>
> And so to the heated lemur debate. I know for a FACT that
> they swam to
> Madagascar. The cute little creatures' aquatic abilities
> were well known to
> dastardly German U-Boat Kapitans in WWII, who would strap
> mines to their
> backs and point them in the direction of the nearest
> British ship.
>

No, no. They made canoes out of banana leaves. Three lemurs
per boat. Two paddled with their hands while the other one
steered. They all went together in a furrier (thick
luxurious fur) version of the Dunkirk landings.

Peter


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