Sinister: Bring Back Goalmouth Scrambles!

[Peter Miller]

I like dog-ugly thick-as-pigshit birds myself. I like birds that are so
thick their bulldog doesn't know which end of the wasp to chew. And vice
versa. You just wait until I get round to reading that Sylvia Plath Diaries
book with a segment of orange in my mouth, a plastic bag over my head and my
belt round my neck, which inadvertently causes my trousers to fall down.

You can get Deep Purple wallpaper!

I've taken that advice and given up on the MFs now, but you can't say I
didn't try. Can I take back that rude word I used about the Duke? I can?
Good, it's the longest Nick Dastoor moment I've ever had.

Thank you for that picture of Mr Dandycock, it made my day.

PF talked about Lionel Trilling. Is there really someone called Stanley
Fish? I like Mansfield Park, but I like Persuasion much better. There's at
least one group called The Persuasions, but no group has ever called itself
The Mansfield Parks. Yes, I think non-fiction does become historical in a
different way to fiction. Look at Edgar Allan Poe. His non-fiction is
brilliant and far-reaching, informative and entertaining, yet often in
copies of The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe the non-fiction pages have
been left uncut, and therefore unread, except by small insects. But then the
non-fiction didn't more or less invent the modern thriller, thereby more or
less engendering the entire film industry, television and the modern
internet. Mind you, I can't get on with his science fiction at all. And
everyone knows those "lend us a fiver" letters, which are non-fiction, and
supremely dramatic. I think perhaps, generally speaking, considerations of
entertainment are put to one side when non-fiction is being allotted its
historical value, resulting in a surprisingly high chart placing for
Virginia Woolf.

Also I suspect that in Jane Austen's day there were plenty of fans going,
"oh she's really lost the plot with Persuasion, really overdone the string
arrangements, Mansfield Park was bad enough, those sax solos really should
have set the alarm bells ringing, she ought to have split up straight after
Sense and Sensibility when you could still hear the quill scratches - they
ought to just stick out the Northanger Abbey demos."

Lucy, I think they have Buckaroo! in Denver.

Peter


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