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Author Archives: Charles Lambert
Unsynthesised manifold
And while we’re reading Greer, just a reminder of the time she was knuckle-rapped by some Plain English people about her use of the term unsynthesised manifold and responded splendidly. I admit that I didn’t know the term myself, which … Continue reading
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Shit. Piss. Sperm. Gilbert. George.
Germaine Greer has a fascinating take on Gilbert and George in today’s Guardian. The article is, I think rightly, less than warm about the work, which she seems to find as pompous, vacuous and posturing as I do. She has … Continue reading
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New Red Brigades arrests shake Italy
Seriously, does anyone know where this comes from (other than Perez Hilton’s blog – spot the tell-tale trail…)?
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Publishing
I’ve just read a very interesting post in the Tart of Fiction blog, about the difficulties of being published. I left this comment: I sent my first novel cold to publishers around 15 years ago. (It never even occurred to … Continue reading
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No success like failure
I was surprised recently when the name of a friend of mine came up in a conversation I was having with someone who works in the media, younger than me, finger on the zeitgeist: let’s call him J. I met … Continue reading
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BEATING TIME
Another poem from the collection entitled VALUE. Once again, it seems like the work of a slightly deranged person I’m not sure I’d want to know, though some of the cultural references still mean something to me. Translate ‘the new … Continue reading
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Toffee
After all this wearisome political stuff, I thought it was time to post a picture of Toffee. I found her in a cardboard box marked Omaggio (Free) outside a pet food shop. She was just over three weeks old and … Continue reading
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DICO? DICEVO…
Prodi’s cobbled together a twelve-point list designed to hold the centre-left coalition together until the end of the legislation. It’s sufficiently vague to work for a while at least and, faced with the alternatives of a technical government or, even … Continue reading
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Crisis? Just ask Giulio
It was inevitable that sooner or later Romano Prodi’s government, with a majority of one in the Senate, would stumble and fall. And it isn’t surprising that two of the people responsible for yesterday’s defeat should represent fringe elements of … Continue reading
Posted in berlusconi, DICO, government, pope, ratzinger, vatican
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