Posts by Paul Litterick
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Sofie I have emailed you, to the address on your PAS profile. If this is not the right address, you can email me on [email protected].
Carry on, the rest of you.
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Likening dawn raids to pogroms I find more than a little distasteful. I had a similar reaction to the description of what happened to Maori in Taranaki as a "holocaust."
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The nation's vans have been stolen by P addicts.
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Abuse is the new black. Among the youff it is kinda cool to be politically incorrect and quite unpleasant towards groups who can be isolated and stereotyped: first it was the gingas, then the gays, now the Jews.
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I am old enough to remember the times when novelists wrote about the present day. Nowadays, only the past will do. Yet none of these novels set in 19th Century come close to real 19th Century literature.
It is no wonder that the Prof stole so much, because writing oneself into the past is near-impossible. The author was not there, does not share the feelings of those who were and - most importantly - unlike them knows how things turned out in the end.
In the next decade, it would be nice to read fiction that faces up to the present.
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Conflicted of Thorndon,
I believe the phrase "stupid glacier" was first used by Greg Pollowitz in his National Review blog, Planet Gore. I am rather ashamed to admit knowing this fact.
Yours ever,
your fact-checking cuz.
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Man, no one ever has any OG love for The Four Lads.
They were in my mind when I made the allusion. I did not know They Might Be Giants had made a cover, although I am hardly surprised: they are scarcely original.
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I think it was made for the late Paul Litterick, who organised the Rockness festival in Inverness; he blew his mind out in a car (too much Horse) at the festival a couple of years back.
Being vain, I have a Google News Alert for my name: I woke up one morning and found that I was dead, which was something of a shock
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Weird, isn't it? I have no idea how or why it came about.
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Nobody's business but the Turks.