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I’m not warming to Stuart Maconie and his sneery condescension.
he says this about Greggs
“And there’s that difficult reputation as caterer in chief to Chav Britain, the staple diet of the hoody hordes and the Trisha tribes”

Written by a middle aged man, for middle aged men - see below (he’s talking about place names such as Ramsbottom)
“Others appeal to the eternal schoolboy who sleeps within every one of us”
Not to me..

Sometimes, market values crowd out non market values worth caring about”

There is a theory that at every moment, all possibilities in our lives are followed, and that an almost infinite multiplicity of universes extend out from us eternally”.
Maybe I died and my family had to go on without me…there is a parallel reality - the one I’m in right now- where we are all still together”

Heisenbergs theory proposed that an electron is not a particle that exists at one place at one time the way a person or a chair does; rather it occupies all positions at once as a statistical probability. When you pin it down by observing it with a detector, the electron freezes in place, and you lose all information about its momentum”

“Nothing in the observable world could be in two places at once - it made no sense - and yet at the subatomic level, that’s exactly what seemed to be happening” 🤯

“Randomly finding a specific grain of sand on the first try among all the grains on earth would be millions of millions times more likely than the universe existing. And yet here we are. 🤯

In 1927 Weber Heisenberg demonstrated that subatomic particles change behaviour when observed..

“Everyone spoke in calm, deliberate voices - as though everything was unspeakably bad but they had faced up to it”

A man walking on stilts among giants..

It’s a time for reflection and recuperation, for slow replenishment, for putting your house in order

“Plants and animals don’t fight the winter; they don’t pretend it’s not happening and attempt to carry on living as they did in the summer. They prepare. They adapt. Winter is a time of withdrawing from the world, maximising scant resources, carrying out acts of brutal efficiency and vanishing from sight; thats where the transformation occurs. Winter is not the death of the life cycle but it’s crucible”

Loving it already

I’m so glad the miserable daughter finally invited her Mum to visit her flat

She is delivering a brutal takedown of her Dad, you could almost feel sorry for him. I’m sure he’s not the only man of that generation who thinks that being rude and irritating is the same as being an entertaining “king of the castle”

Laurie Lee is taking me through the seasons. I’m halfway through Spring

I stormed out of the building. And like any proper addict or alcoholic, I embraced my resentment to stole my addiction.
That, in a nutshell, is addict think”

Some of the sexism..and creepy tabloidese
This is the aithor on Sammy Davis Junior and May Britt
“Sammy was warned that she had ice water in her veins…but one look at all that leg candy convinced him he had to try”

“He slept at last, for an hour, and woke in the horrors of a headache fit to crack his skull, a leaping gorge, blazing thirst, and a stomach so estranged it refused to harbour its only friends, aspirin and cold water”

“There was something about the way the Herr professor took on any subject or situation, on a moments notice, poured it into the mould of his own mind and handed it back to you all in one piece, without a seam, that put Freytag in a good malicious humour. It took genius to be such a bore as that”

“Noticing again the sulky scowling face secure in its instinctive self righteous resentment, Dr Schumann felt the swift sting of a strange envy of that preposterous cruel innocence”

It’s growing on me

I need to put more effort in with this book as it’s not really gripping me so far

“ The Germans marching around in their boots were grown ups, powerful but also ridiculous figures who spent all their time forcing the French to do what they didn’t want to do - that was all too familiar. Germans were bone headed bullies who couldn’t even grasp the obvious fact that they had no right to meddle in French peoples business, never mind scaring them and bossing them about”

“Grown ups had the knack of imposing reality when you least wanted it…like a contrary King Midas , whenever they touched gold it turned to dross”

I feel as if I’m at a party and have been cornered by an Edwin Drood obsessive, who won’t let me escape. I’m partly intrigued but I also want to get away from him..

Remind me why I used to like Jarvis Cocker so much
“Don’t worry about where ‘inspiration is going to come from - it can come from anywhere and everywhere. The big question is: are you ready to receive it when it comes? Is your antenna up? Is your aerial extended? If so, you got mail..”

“Unrevised, real life is just a mess”

I’m reading a semi autobiographical novel in which one of the characters writes a short story about a semi autobiographical novelist based on her mother, a lesbian who hates that she is a lesbian. Sometimes I just have to stop and read a paragraph twice 😵‍💫