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The Angels of L19
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Push Process
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Five Wounds: An Illuminated Novel
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Pistols! Treason! Murder!: The Rise and Fall of a Master Spy
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A Zone
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Prints on Show at the Wyllieum in Greenock
From October 3, I will have sixteen prints on show at the Wyllieum in Greenock, for about a month. They depict Gourock and Greenock, as per the projects discussed here in previous posts.
I'll be doing a short talk about this show at the Wyllieum at 2pm on Saturday October 3.
Here is the introductory text (adapted from that used in my photo book) and some sample images that will be on display:
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The Fifth Child's Conception in the Runaway Wife: An Urban Novel in Eighteen Chapters:
"A one-book wonder, Frances Jessup published this farcical comic novel—a spiky mashup of Muriel Spark and Raymond Queneau—in 1970, had it reprinted by Penguin in 1974, then vanished into obscurity, never to publish again. The novel concerns a four-kid"
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Voices From the Forest is quite good (as far as I remember from a reading many years ago).
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Doom Painting:
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They have tried to cover his eyes, but he sees further than they know. It breaks on him like revelation: these rebels pose no danger to him. But they are a danger to them, to these men who would seek to control and to thwart their sovereign. He ca" Read more of this review » |
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“His mind was freshly inclined toward sorrow; toward the fact that the world was full of sorrow; that everyone labored under some burden of sorrow; that all were suffering; that whatever way one took in this world, one must try to remember that all were suffering (none content; all wronged, neglected, overlooked, misunderstood), and therefore one must do what one could to lighten the load of those with whom one came into contact; that his current state of sorrow was not uniquely his, not at all, but, rather, its like had been felt, would be felt, by scores of others, in all times, in every time, and must not be prolonged or exaggerated, because, in this state, he could be of no help to anyone and, given that his position in the world situated him to be either of great help, or great harm, it would not do to stay low, if he could help it.”
― Lincoln in the Bardo
― Lincoln in the Bardo
“Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to be watching or reading about emotional crises among folk who live in a world of great fortune both in matters of luck and money; stories and fantasies about rock stars and film stars, sporting millionaires and models; jet-setting members of the aristocracy and international financiers.”
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