Status Updates From Ambivalence: An Education

Teenage me has been CLOCKED

Nearly finished. Trying not to finish it because this is certainly the best book I’ve read this year. After this everything will seem inferior. Brilliant book by a brilliant writer. Now I’ve got to read more of Dillon - my new literary hero.

“These days almost everything he reads is in translation and this has given him a strange mistrust of anything not translated as if fully inhabiting the language one reads or writes in is a kind of captivity”

"A feast of seriousness is in full swing inside him"

Of course anyone that mentions Cohen Dylan Ginsberg Baudelaire and Mark E Smith in the same footnote is obviously worth reading.

This is more like it. A writer in total command. In a different league to most others. Class.