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Author Archives: Charles Lambert
A few days off
I’ll be leaving the insufferable heat of central Italy tomorrow for a week in the more temperate climes of the English Midlands. I can’t wait. The blissful vacancy of travel. M&S duck à l’orange and Jeremy Kyle (my guilty secret, … Continue reading
RIP Simon Gray
I was sad to see that Simon Gray had died. I started reading him when an extract from the first of his diaries to be published – The Smoking Diaries – appeared in Granta some years ago, and I’ve been … Continue reading
Posted in isherwood, simon gray
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Little Monsters review
Scott Pack has written an excellent review of Little Monsters. I’m particularly fond of this bit (you can probably guess why): The way Lambert handles relationships, and how small betrayals and minor secrets can divert their course, reminded me of … Continue reading
Posted in kundera, little monsters, review, scott pack
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A-Z
Once again, you have Maud Newton to thank for pointing me to this.
Posted in maud newton
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High
Following the recent mountaineering deaths on K2 I’ve been thinking about the way we react, or we’re supposed to react, to this kind of disaster. A bunch of people push their bodies to the limit to achieve a sort of … Continue reading
Posted in sport
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Head and neck should be opened
This image comes from a site called Face Analyst: A New Approach to the Old Puzzle. It’s written in what reads like an unholy marriage between machine translation and psychobabble. The text beside it goes like this: The classical type … Continue reading
Bare naked homophobia
Jesus’ General is one of my favourite blogs pretty much all the time, but his latest post is particularly wonderful. Read it here. The illustration comes from it.
Posted in homophobia, jesus' general
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I love you I hate you
I was talking to a friend last night about what it might mean to have an inferiority complex. In one sense the term’s an oxymoron. The moment you understand your inferiority is a complex rather than a simple fact about … Continue reading
Posted in writing
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"a sense today"
An illuminating post from Lally’s Alley, with extracts from work by Nathan Kernan and Bill Corbett that do exactly what extracts should do: make you want to read the rest. The title to this post comes from one of them.
Posted in poem
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CHARLES LAMBERT 