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Criticism, summarised

Some people liked Stravinsky for being Stravinsky. Others did not. What can you do.

Tragedy defined

A beautiful girl eats chips with her mouth open. ‘The average age of everybody…’ she begins.

To the BBC stringer who took my picture without asking (and then demurred over sending me a copy)

Well, I guess we’re even now, huh?

Love not(e)

A. I love you. B. Fuck you.

Summer of ’98

I remember that summer as being of great importance. Or, rather: I remember that summer – and that seems important.

Ever young

– If you die young enough, you see everything. – And yet, dying old, you still haven’t seen enough.

Suffer not

They were sitting on the floor leaning into the corner of the room, her mouth on his nipple, her hand moving his cock slowly. I sat in the corner of the library, reading Ondaatje, hoping none of the children would see.

A matter of emphasis

The poetry does not matter – Eliot. The poetry does not matter – Elliott.

Solo (a duet)

‘There’s no I in team,’ she said. ‘No; but there’s an M and an E, and that’s good enough for me.’

Sir Jacob Astley’s prayer

‘March on boys!’ quoth Sir Jacob Astley, neglecting to remember that an army marches, famously, on its stomach.