Hi all. Very hot overnight, not much sleep. Seems I missed the spam, shame I could have bought another degree. Today will mainly be spent watering and dead heading and then some reading in the sun. Does anyone here read Will Self, I am struggling to make any sense of one of his novels?
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Morning Pdoc I'm a huge fan of Wilf Self's contributions to R4's A Point of View and other such programmes and so is OH ... we've never read any of his novels tho ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hiya Dove That is why I decided to read one of his novels, but it all seems to be written as a single sentence, and with a constant out pouring of ideas. It is clearly very clever, but at the moment, not hugely enjoyable.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Apparently he's been quoted as saying "...I don't write fiction for people to identify with and I don't write a picture of the world they can recognise. I write to astonish people. ....... What excites me is to disturb the reader's fundamental assumptions. I want to make them feel that certain categories within which they are used to perceiving the world are unstable."
Not sure that I can deal with that at the moment ... there's already enough instability around
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning all. I enjoyed Will Self when he wrote for the Observer but gave up when I tried one of his books. Lily P, we have had rain but not sufficient. I think you have been more fortunate.
Apparently he's been quoted as saying "...I don't write fiction for people to identify with and I don't write a picture of the world they can recognise. I write to astonish people. ....... What excites me is to disturb the reader's fundamental assumptions. I want to make them feel that certain categories within which they are used to perceiving the world are unstable."
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Very hot overnight, not much sleep.
Seems I missed the spam, shame I could have bought another degree.
Today will mainly be spent watering and dead heading and then some reading in the sun.
Does anyone here read Will Self, I am struggling to make any sense of one of his novels?
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
I'm a huge fan of Wilf Self's contributions to R4's A Point of View and other such programmes and so is OH ... we've never read any of his novels tho ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That is why I decided to read one of his novels, but it all seems to be written as a single sentence, and with a constant out pouring of ideas. It is clearly very clever, but at the moment, not hugely enjoyable.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Not sure that I can deal with that at the moment ... there's already enough instability around
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
I enjoyed Will Self when he wrote for the Observer but gave up when I tried one of his books.
Lily P, we have had rain but not sufficient. I think you have been more fortunate.