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Wouter van Noort is 40% done with Moab Is My Washpot

I might use long words from time to time and talk rapidly or display any number of other silly donnish affectations, but if this gives the impression that I might admire a similar manner or nature in others, then it makes me just want to go "bibbly-bobbly-bubbly-snibbly-wib-wib-floppit" for the rest of my life.

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Wouter van Noort is 34% done with Moab Is My Washpot

Hugh Laurie can sing splendidly, and play any musical instrument you throw at him, the son of a son of a son of a son of a son of a bitch.

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Wouter van Noort is 28% done with Moab Is My Washpot

I can play... I mean, as an effort of will I can sit down and learn a piece at the piano and reproduce it, so that those who hear will not necessarily move away with their hands clutched to their mouths, vomit leaking through fingers, blood dripping from ears.

— 17 hours, 37 min ago Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 23% done with Moab Is My Washpot

The Stephen Fry who shouted "Miss, Miss!" and giggled with the girls by the hopscotch court has died and in his place stands Fry, Fry, S. J., Young Fry, Fry Minor, Fry the Younger, Fry Secundus, Fry Junior or, worst of all, Small Fry.

— 22 hours, 55 min ago Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 17% done with Moab Is My Washpot

In those days, when you were cut off you would rattle the cradle and shout, "Operator! Operator!" Older people still do it. They don't know that it's as fruitless as pulling at a servant's bell or asking for the Left Luggage office. They don't know that in the world today...
THERE'S NO ONE THERE!

— Nov 17, 2025 03:48AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 12% done with Moab Is My Washpot

The sound of Roger and Stephen Fry singing, could cause people to stab themselves in the throat with sharpened pencils, jump from high windows, claw out their own inner ears, electrocute their genitals, put on a Jim Reeves record, throw themselves cackling hysterically into the path of moving buses anything, anything to take away the pain.

— Nov 16, 2025 02:44PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 6% done with Moab Is My Washpot

"Don't worry," I said again. "I'll look after you. Everything will be fine."
I'll look after you. The pleasure of saying those words, the warm wet sea of pleasure. Quite extraordinary. A little pet all to myself.

— Nov 16, 2025 09:02AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 83% done with He's to Die For

"I'll say this for you, Trivedi, you certainly have a flair for drama." Lieutenant Howard rubs her temples. "Never in my thirty years on the force have I encountered the kind of Hollywood bullshit you keep getting mixed up in."

— Nov 15, 2025 03:29PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 76% done with He's to Die For

"You are good at this. Too bad there's no broom closets around here." He turns away, a teasing smile on his lips.

— Nov 15, 2025 01:15AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 70% done with He's to Die For

"You bring joy into the lives of thousands of people and you shine a light on the world through music. That's amazing."

— Nov 14, 2025 09:06AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 64% done with He's to Die For

Jack could have anyone he wants. He could have everyone he wants, all at the same time. And he wants Rav? It's mad.
The good kind of mad, obviously.

— Nov 13, 2025 03:51PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 58% done with He's to Die For

Jack's life is a lot, even without the homicidal stalker. Tabloids. Fans. The ghost of Tommy Esposito. He's a walking land mine, and the closer Rav gets, the worse the fallout will be. Is that what he's really afraid of?

— Nov 12, 2025 03:50PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 52% done with He's to Die For

She's curled up on the leather armchair, tiny feet tucked up beneath her, licking her spoon. Rav, meanwhile, is stretched out on the sofa like he's seeing his therapist. Which he kind of is.

— Nov 12, 2025 03:07AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 46% done with He's to Die For

God, he would love to nail this guy before the FBI does.
And if that were to earn him some points with a certain someone, well....that would be a definite bonus.

— Nov 11, 2025 03:52PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 40% done with He's to Die For

Rav dreads the prospect of going into the office on Monday. Water cooler chitchat makes him want to hang himself at the best of times. How was your weekend? Oh, you know. Angry mobs, death threats. Made out with a rock star. You?

— Nov 11, 2025 03:13AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 34% done with He's to Die For

One thing's for sure: that conversation wouldn't have been possible if he were still on the case. He's going to have to send the FBI a goddamned fruit basket. He snorts a laugh into his wineglass, downs the last sip, and goes to bed.

— Nov 10, 2025 04:21PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 28% done with He's to Die For

He's not starstruck. Well. Maybe a little. He's acutely aware that something special is happening here, and he tries to silence his whirring brain for once, to be present in the moment and just appreciate it.

— Nov 10, 2025 07:33AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 22% done with He's to Die For

He turns in early, vowing to redouble his efforts tomorrow.
Eyes on the prize, he reminds himself. He has a murderer to catch, and that's all that matters.

— Nov 09, 2025 02:12PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 17% done with He's to Die For

Bloody hell, Trivedi. He tosses his phone onto the sofa, piling cushions on top of it for good measure. He will not let this suspect mess with his head.

— Nov 09, 2025 02:14AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 11% done with He's to Die For

He has a hard time imagining her with any sort of hobby. Hobbies require a personality, and Howard doesn't have one of those. She's like a female Captain Holt from Brooklyn Nine-Nine, minus the sparkling sense of humor.

— Nov 08, 2025 01:42PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 6% done with He's to Die For

Rav is perched on the edge of his partner's desk, tossing an apple from hand to hand. It's not his apple. He avoids fruit wherever possible.

— Nov 08, 2025 01:20AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 78% done with The Wild Silence

I lifted Moth's rucksack as he put his arm through the strap, took a photograph of the starting post and a deep breath of hope.
There was no going back now. We left the river behind and headed into the sulphurous heart of the southern highlands of Iceland.

— Nov 07, 2025 07:01AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 67% done with The Wild Silence

The South West Coast Path had led us out of anguish and despair to a place of hope and possibility. And now, by walking it again on paper, The Salt Path had led us home.

— Nov 07, 2025 02:46AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 59% done with The Wild Silence

I felt Moth's hand in mine, the scent of blackberries in the air and the overwhelming sense that this moment is the only one we have, the only one we need.

— Nov 06, 2025 03:23PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 52% done with The Wild Silence

I shook the ink cartridge and put it back in the printer. Maybe there was enough ink. Taking a deep breath, I pressed print.
An hour later a manuscript lay on the table in front of me.

— Nov 06, 2025 08:44AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 46% done with The Wild Silence

I opened the book again at the very start of the path. Minehead.
The faded pencil notes in the margin were barely legible after the rain damage. 'Day 1 - if the rest of the path is like this we don't stand a chance.'

— Nov 06, 2025 02:44AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 40% done with The Wild Silence

Why had those words come out of my mouth? I'd carelessly spoken the words of a barely formulated thought. I'm thinking of writing: how could I have said those words out loud?

— Nov 05, 2025 03:09PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 34% done with The Wild Silence

I finally knew what had driven me to suggest that we should walk across cliffs and beaches, through woods and valleys, sleeping wild, living wild. It was the land, the earth, the deep humming background to my very being. It was the land.

— Nov 05, 2025 07:28AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 28% done with The Wild Silence

And yet as we walked along that incredible strip of wilderness, forgetting the existence of the normal world that lay to one side of the path, with our eyes always drawn to the endless horizon of the sea on the other, exhausted and starving, something had changed.

— Nov 05, 2025 03:15AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 22% done with The Wild Silence

The South West Coast Path: From Minehead to South Haven Point, Paddy Dillon's beautiful guidebook to the 630-mile path. The book that had guided us. The friend in our pocket as we decided not to give in to the chaos of homelessness, but to put our rucksacks on our backs and walk the whole length of the path Paddy describes.

— Nov 04, 2025 04:41PM Add a comment

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