February blogs from the house of Salvēte!
As this is a leap year I've given myself the day off and instead of a blog proper offer an index to the past month. Subjects include French perfume, categories of human excrement, Jonathan Meades, Umberto Eco, an obscure mentaldisorder that leads to chronic punning, two lost literary jokes,, lingerie, death, the Flintstones, Ezra Pound's take on Sophocles and a chap in 1970s Essex who could speak fluent Venusian.
A veritable smorgasbord, you'll agree - something for everyone and free for all.. Click on each title below to read the corresponding blog while asking yourself: why isn't February 29th the pretext for a national - or international - holiday?
A veritable smorgasbord, you'll agree - something for everyone and free for all.. Click on each title below to read the corresponding blog while asking yourself: why isn't February 29th the pretext for a national - or international - holiday?
- 01 On Beckett's Echo's Bones - about the belated publication of an early Beckett work.
- 02 Dingy (1) - a short series about a particularly British form of dinginess. Diana Dors getting off a train
- 03 Dingy (2) - more dinginess in the shape of telly presenter Hughie Green presenting a right-wing rant
- 04 Dingy (3) - a third helping of dinginess: the fondly-forgotten Sinclair C5
- 05 Dingy (4) - concluding this short run of unglamorousness: the Initial Teaching Alphabet (I.T.A.)
- 06 Perfume and a plug - on Guerlain's sublime Vol de nuit
- 07 Dead reckoning - the impact of celebrity deaths
- 08 What lies beneath - on a cultural history of lingerie
- 09 On Jürgen Habermas - the language of cultural studies
- 10 Kate Hopkins - a solo show - new paintings from a fine artist
- 11 On J. O Morgan - an impressive poet
- 12 Developing poetry - a 1930s perspective
- 13 Two lost jokes - from Auden and Beckett. Any takers?
- 14 Minding the Gap - the story behind the tannoy announcement
- 15 Who wrote this? a very short literary quiz and thoughts about underwater villages
- 16 On Ann Quin (eventually) - a favourite experimental writer
- 17 Sex, puns and Finnegans Wake - a discovery, perhaps
- 18 Excremental Jeremy Hunt - the turd man
- 19 Yabba Dabba Doo - a letter to the TLS
- 20 Dylan Thomas and Maya Deren - an odd encounter and a link to a film
- 21 On Jonathan Meades - a little-known early work from a favourite writer
- 22 On Umberto Eco - a short tribute, roping in the much-missed Gilbert Adair
- 23 King Herod complains - a bilious vision of the future from W H. Auden's For the Time Being
- 24 On Lyse Doucet and juncture - Radio 4's foreign correspondent and a lingusitic trope
- 25 Trigger happy - American students encounter the classics
- 26 16 types of poet - a draft classification
- 27 Pound's Sophocles - Women of Trachis, made new
- 28 Glossolalia - chap in Essex who speaks fluent Venusian
- 29 February index - In a self reflexive moment . . . you're reading this now.
Coming in March:
* Manuela and Sam - an unpublished play script
* Anatomy of a Soldier - Harry Parker's debut novel revisited
* Knock-knock jokes: a cultural history
* Claudio Magris
* From the archives
* Norman Manea
* Philip Maltman, artist and poet
* About a Girl: A Reader's Guide to Eimear McBride's A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
* And (as advertising copywriters like to say) 'much, much more'. Although this means that they've run out of
ideas, or space, or both, which is not the case here. Not yet, oh no.)
* Norman Manea
* Philip Maltman, artist and poet
* About a Girl: A Reader's Guide to Eimear McBride's A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
* And (as advertising copywriters like to say) 'much, much more'. Although this means that they've run out of
ideas, or space, or both, which is not the case here. Not yet, oh no.)
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