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Bloke's Progress
Darren Bloke is an ordinary, hard-working stiff until a lottery win changes—and ruins—his life. He squanders his windfall and loses everything but his beloved dog, Skittle. Then he is visited by the spirit of John Ruskin—a sharp-eyed art critic and reknowned “holistic” thinker from the 1800s. Ruskin shows Darren the true meaning of Wealth—not how to acquire it, but what is the right way for an honest human to deal with it. Further visits from Ruskin’s spirit take him on a journey into Perception, and finally, he learns from Ruskin the true value of Work. In the end, Darren discovers the meaning of Ruskin’s favorite saying, “There is no wealth but life.”
120 pages, Paperback
First published November 15, 2018
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Kevin Jackson
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Kevin Jackson's childhood ambition was to be a vampire but instead he became the last living polymath. His colossal expertise ranged from Seneca to Sugababes, with a special interest in the occult, Ruskin, take-away food, Dante's Inferno and the moose. He was the author of numerous books on numerous subjects, including Fast: Feasting on the Streets of London (Portobello 2006), and reviewed regularly for the Sunday Times.
From: http://portobellobooks.com/3014/Kevin...
Kevin Jackson was an English writer, broadcaster and filmmaker.
He was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge. After teaching in the English Department of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, he joined the BBC, first as a producer in radio and then as a director of short documentaries for television. In 1987 he was recruited to the Arts pages of The Independent. He was a freelance writer from the early 1990s and was a regular contributor to BBC radio discussion programmes.
Jackson often collaborated on projects in various media: with, among others, the film-maker Kevin Macdonald, with the cartoonist Hunt Emerson, with the musician and composer Colin Minchin (with whom he wrote lyrics for the rock opera Bite); and with the songwriter Peter Blegvad.
Jackson appears, under his own name, as a semi-fictional character in Iain Sinclair's account of a pedestrian journey around the M25, London Orbital.
Adapted from Wikipedia
Kevin Jackson's childhood ambition was to be a vampire but instead he became the last living polymath. His colossal expertise ranged from Seneca to Sugababes, with a special interest in the occult, Ruskin, take-away food, Dante's Inferno and the moose. He was the author of numerous books on numerous subjects, including Fast: Feasting on the Streets of London (Portobello 2006), and reviewed regularly for the Sunday Times.
From: http://portobellobooks.com/3014/Kevin...
Kevin Jackson was an English writer, broadcaster and filmmaker.
He was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge. After teaching in the English Department of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, he joined the BBC, first as a producer in radio and then as a director of short documentaries for television. In 1987 he was recruited to the Arts pages of The Independent. He was a freelance writer from the early 1990s and was a regular contributor to BBC radio discussion programmes.
Jackson often collaborated on projects in various media: with, among others, the film-maker Kevin Macdonald, with the cartoonist Hunt Emerson, with the musician and composer Colin Minchin (with whom he wrote lyrics for the rock opera Bite); and with the songwriter Peter Blegvad.
Jackson appears, under his own name, as a semi-fictional character in Iain Sinclair's account of a pedestrian journey around the M25, London Orbital.
Adapted from Wikipedia
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October 25, 2018
What did I think? BRILLIANT!
Why? A condensing of a very difficult topic into a format any idiot can understand...and I'm not just any idiot!
How to be RICH, How to SEE and How to WORK - three comics around three core concepts = "There is no wealth but life" the key point made by the Spirit of Ruskin to Darren, the bloke and his dog Skittle!
This breakdown of complex thought into relevant 21st century thinking with examples are brilliant! I'm not surprised they have been used in schools before the combined version appeared.
This is not just a comic strip version of Ruskin's thoughts but their application to us now and also Jackson and Emerson ask some of the questions I had on reading this book, through the device of the reader intruding on affairs!
I'm off to find some more of their work!
Why? A condensing of a very difficult topic into a format any idiot can understand...and I'm not just any idiot!
How to be RICH, How to SEE and How to WORK - three comics around three core concepts = "There is no wealth but life" the key point made by the Spirit of Ruskin to Darren, the bloke and his dog Skittle!
This breakdown of complex thought into relevant 21st century thinking with examples are brilliant! I'm not surprised they have been used in schools before the combined version appeared.
This is not just a comic strip version of Ruskin's thoughts but their application to us now and also Jackson and Emerson ask some of the questions I had on reading this book, through the device of the reader intruding on affairs!
I'm off to find some more of their work!
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