Here's the Man Booker Prizewinner 2018 .... Anna Burns and "Milkman" That's a rubbish title for a book, by the way. Well, it's "very experimental" ... it's got characters with no names, I seem to remember hearing that it hasn't got any paragraphs ,it's rather weird .... in a "Tristram Shandy" sort of rambling way. And anyway, all that "experimental" stuff has been done before. Haven't any of these reviewers read "La vie, mode d'emploi" or "La Disparition" or "The Pooh Perplex" or .. hang on, 20 Pinks have just flown over the attic, N. There's been 3 previous flocks so far this morning, 500+ NW, then about 200 E, and another 100 or so E as well... I suspect they're all the same ones milling about. ... as I was saying, or Martin Amis' "Time's Arrow" or for that matter, Raymond Queneau's "Exercices de Style." ? But all we want to know is ... has it got any blasted birds in it ? At all ? Is there an index ? That's another thing I want to know. Then, before we bought it, we could look in the index to see if there were any blasted birds in it. And never mind all this "set in "The Troubles"" stuff. I've been there and done that through all "The Troubles" ... and still got lots of birding done. I didn't wallow around in my own pool of misery. I just got on with spotting Iceland Gulls and Ring-billed Gulls and the like. Gulls, mainly.And Waxwings. And that "flamingo" that wasn't. Eek. Blimey ! So ...we're all agreed then ... no index, probably no birds ... a dead loss. And as for yesterday's brilliant idea about everybody having to live in London, and all the good things that would flow from it .... I've also considered the "opposite" idea ... everybody lives apart from everyone else ... spread out over the whole of the UK, equidistant from each other. Well, it would cut down on fights outside pubs I suppose. And for a lot of people, it would be a long way to the shops. Quite how far, I'm not sure.
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