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“Ah, bankers, students, workers, officials, servants, you are the cock-suckers of the useful, the masturbators of necessity. I shall never work. My hands are pure.” — Louis Aragon

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Half term

Posted on February 20, 2011 by simonings
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Club Gascon

Posted on February 17, 2011 by simonings
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Sam on sax

Posted on February 16, 2011 by simonings
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If you’re going to call your book Dead Water, you have to look the part…

Posted on February 15, 2011 by simonings
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It’s author photograph time again. None of your fist-on-chin malarky here. This is me about to pass out from sunstroke during a “research trip” (Inland Revenue please note) to Oman. Anna calls this my “creepy farmer” look.

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William Hazlitt comes to his senses

Posted on February 13, 2011 by simonings
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Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.

 

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Proust was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer

Posted on February 12, 2011 by simonings
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The US science writer’s debut appears in the UK at last. I reviewed it for the Guardian:

Why has neuroscience has been pipped to the post, not once, but time and time again, by writers and artists, composers and cooks?

Lehrer

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The barrel-eye

Posted on January 28, 2011 by simonings
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The Eye contains some cursory descriptions of adaptive “spectacles”  – but nothing like this.

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Oscar Wilde

Posted on January 25, 2011 by simonings
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Life goes faster than Realism.

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Deathtrap

Posted on January 15, 2011 by simonings
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Christmas day

Posted on December 25, 2010 by simonings
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