Sinister: Jonathan Dimbleby / David Dimbleby

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Jim Taylor popped his head above the parapet, which
reminded me that he was one of the first people to
greet me in Glasgow. So once again, Jim - hello.

Anyone would think that David Moore didn't have 3 jobs
to go to.

Peter Miller laid into the new 45. I was glad to see
that. He's right about the guitar solo if nothing
else. And maybe other things too. In Glasgow we heard
stories about him.

Has anyone read The Great Gatsby lately? Tony Tanner's
Penguin intro is a marvel. Golly, there are some great
lines in that novel. The cabs in the 40s on the way to
the theates; the streets of men, women and machines;
the valley of ashes seeking what Tanner calls
'negative transcendence'; Gatsby and the green light
across the bay; the moment that Carraway tells him,
you're better than the lot of them put together; the
stunning finale, on the edge of a mysterious, new,
old, modern, sad land, in the spray of time and the
sea.

It makes me wonder why my editor doesn't like
Fitzgerald more than (I think) he does. Talk about the
understanding of artifice (let alone the artifice of
understanding).

Going to see B&S in the flesh reminded me of the silly
theme that comes up now and again, re. Isobel's rear
end. It reminded me to write to sinister and say: it
is terribly obvious that people who go on about it the
way they do - in what is meant to look like a daring
and satirical way - are really just beating the bishop
while sitting at the keyboard. I am quite convinced of
this.


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