tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8534536753236336876.post8731597740643836725..comments2024-03-24T18:12:28.906+00:00Comments on The Glue Factory: Not even wrongDavid J Collardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01353517349363925633noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8534536753236336876.post-76132827242277412442014-10-10T13:09:20.179+01:002014-10-10T13:09:20.179+01:00Thanks very much for 'Elkiana' - the life ...Thanks very much for 'Elkiana' - the life and work of Anne Elk (Mrs) should be better known. I enjoyed your NYT contribution.<br /><br />Haven't (yet) noted any connection between appearances on the TLS letters page and the arrival of evangelical junk mail, but perhaps things are organised differently in the States. Adapting Chesterton's view that the wind is caused by the movement of trees, is it not possible that it's the the evangelical junk mail that prompts, many months later, a desire to write to the TLS? That is my theory, which is mine.<br />David J Collardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01353517349363925633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8534536753236336876.post-59945556360162088682014-10-10T10:19:37.095+01:002014-10-10T10:19:37.095+01:00My own contribution to the lists of Elkiana, in Th...<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/books/review/reading-life.html" rel="nofollow">My own contribution</a> to the lists of Elkiana, in <i>The New York Times Book Review</i> in 2011.<br /><br />Another John Cleese character from <i>Monty Python's Flying Circus</i>, the inarticulate footballer Jimmy Buzzard, figured in my <a href="http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1429175.ece" rel="nofollow">letter to the TLS</a> for July 4, 2014. <br /><br />And speaking of Watchtower-like outreach from sepulchral hands, it looks like I am not the only one among regular writers of letters to the TLS these last several years to have received in the mail, on each occasion, an <a href="http://greatwarfiction.wordpress.com/2011/09/22/letter-in-tls/#comment-44957" rel="nofollow">envelope or two stuffed with tiny Evangelical pamphlets</a> by unseen hands whose correspondin, as it were, eyes were alert to the TLS policy, virtually unknown here Stateside, of printing the writer's address in full.Scott Lahtihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12247116227131605292noreply@blogger.com