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I'd like to reassure you, but I'm not that kind of guy. Memorial Device ANT.
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Found you!

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August's book reading pile. Enjoyed the Iain Banks (savouring what's left of his that remains unread by me) and the Alisdair Gray most. Anna Kavan remains unsettling, Kadare quietly brilliant. Ness recalled a visit to Orford last year; not forgotten, nor likely to be.

A pile of books shown spine-on comprising:

Robert MacFarlane     Ness
Gavin Francis             Island Dreams
Grayson Perry           Playing to the Gallery 
Raynor Winn            The Wild Silence
Iain Banks                 Whit
Ismail Kadare            Broken April 
Alistair Gray              Foolish Things
Bjorn Larsson           From Cape Wrath to Finisterre 
M John Harrison       Wish I Was Here
Anna Kavan                I am Lazarus
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Howdy! My big brother was a beagle!

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And then there's always 'Passport to Pimlico'... Meanwhile, I take it you've seen the loco that played 'The Titfield Thunderbolt'...

Locomotive 'Lion', one of the competitors at the legendary Rainhill Trials in 1829, now to be found in the Museum of Liverpool Life.  In between times, it did service as a docks engine, restored and mounted on a plinth at Lime Street Station Liverpool in 1930 and starred as the titular train in 'The Titfield Thunderbolt'.
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Following the Alec Guinness line... I've always liked this one.

The film poster for 'The Ladykillers', a 1950s British dark comedy.  Caricatures of the five male leads, Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers and Danny Green adorn the poster.
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Howdy! There was a Memorial Device thingy, but I've not been here for a while and forgotten the details, I'm afraid.

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An afternoon of garden creatures small in the sage bush and a creature of mystery in a charm of a book I bought this week from Blackwell's in Oxford. Entertaining and informative

A ladybird aphid walking upside down along a green sage leaf: the aphid is black with a band of orange along its back.  Tufts of hair seem to sprout along its back (some orange, all the rest black).
A very small snail shell on a green sage leaf framed by other sage leaves which are slightly out of focus.
A book, called 'A Dodo at Oxford', subtitled 'The unreliable account of a student and his pet dodo'.  An image is on the cover in the style of a late 17th century print of a man standing behind a table costumed appropriately with a dodo in front of the table, bottom right of the image.

Underneath is a quote from Philip Pullman:  'a masterpiece a real Oxford book, in every sense, full of wit and fantasy, and properly anchored in a very real seventeenth-century world'
A double page spread of the inside of the book: in the middle, across the centre of both pages, is a fascimile of a diary allegedly printed in 1695 with a sketch under the text of the right hand leaf.  Side notes are on both sides outside the fascimiles image.
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What's your sign?

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Howdy from Manchester UK. I'm intermittently here but should try to check in more often...

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I'm a borderline Sebald obsessive.

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I'd like to reassure you, but I'm not that kind of guy. Memorial Device ANT.
121 followers117 following102 posts