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Writing tagged: ‘literature’

Theoretical frivolousness

In which I am bamboozled (once again) by the LRB.

Published 13-Nov-2016
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: literature, lrb

The art of analogy

Stendhal shows how it's done.

Published 18-Sep-2016
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: analogies, language, literature, quotes

Chuzzle wit

High-brow literary pun alert!

Published 07-May-2016
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: literature, murdoch, puns

The boy who decried Woolf

In which I spot a howler in Virginia Woolf's ‘Mrs Dalloway’.

Published 24-Jun-2014
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: language, literature

I totally stole this joke from someone on Twitter:

Chinese author Mo Yan wins Nobel Prize for Literature.

Published 11-Oct-2012
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: china, literature, twitter

Inexperienced heraldry

Nabokov quote. Discuss.

Published 23-Aug-2012
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: literature

Rowling, Rowling, Rowling…

My prediction as to the outcome of the Harry Potter saga.

Published 26-Dec-2006
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: harry potter, literature, predictions

Phyllis who?

I think I might be a philistine.

Published 02-Oct-2005
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: literature

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On the Moor
On the Moor: science, history and nature on a country walk

This is a lovely book. I really enjoyed it—partly, I suspect, because I have a similar sense of humour to that of the author and also because I am generally curious about life. [...] The author is good at explanations. I like that. Eclectic—that’s what this book is. And rambling—in a good way (after all, these are walks). I liked it. I hope Richard Carter is writing another volume of his thoughts. I’ll buy it.
—Mark Avery, author and former director of conservation at the RSPB, Sunday Book Review

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