Status Updates From Scamp

I adore this book so far

Mrs Chabbers and Jim head off to Lincoln and a life of domesticity together

Bellenger leaves for Cambridge

Philip Lank identifies an already frazzled Bellenger as the new Christ. Confirmation, if it were needed, he must leave the madness of Soho.

Bellenger, too, was changing. He was reaching the end of a 10-year period in his 30-odd years of life.

Bert Flogcrobber was not at all well. He suffered from a whole host of minor ailments and irritations.

A bit of unexpected social comment about back street abortions

Ah Ginsberg, Mrs Chabbers, Kagaranias, Angus Sternforth Simms, Bellenger, Julius Kripkin, Spiffhorn and Trunt, Bert Flogcrobber, Kroganin, what a motley band.

The rats.

Mrs Chabbers progressively unsure about Ginsberg

Post-Lolita this book gets quite dark and takes time to muse on various philosophical matters, again I am reminded of Adrift In Soho.

Let's hope the anti Semitic and unpleasant Burt Flocrobber gets his comeuppance

I feel sorry for Mrs Chabbera

The printer is arranged

The plot's somewhat inconsequential however the evocation of early 1950s central London is really interesting and enjoyable.

A great evocation of the back streets of Soho and the West End. A good companion piece to Colin Wilson's Adrift In Soho.

Tom - one foot dragging lifelessly behind the other - and Krishna set off past the railway arches and the long, unbroken walls of goods yards into the desolation north of the Cross

Encounters with people like Storringham upset Ginsberg in a disturbing, unaccountable way. They seemed to take place on the furthest borders of reality.

Enter Angus Sternforth Simms (aka Julian Maclaren-Ross) in The Corney Arms (aka The Wheatsheaf). Splendid.

Mouse tracks on the congealed fat in the frying pan.

Wow. Very interesting introduction from Iain Sinclair. Some splendid diligent detective work to establish more about Roland Camberton.