Jacob Wren“I am a real minimalist, because I don’t do very much. I know some minimalists who call themselves minimalist but they do loads of minimalism. That is cheating.”
- Robert Wyatt
- Robert Wyatt
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Was sore tempted by a second printing of this in an antiquarian bookshop but baulked at the £40 pricetag. This was £3 in the Amnesty bookshop Hammersmith, some foxing, otherwise v. good to excellent.
Just picked most of our sorrel patch, wilted it, finished it with butter and added it to a five-egg omelette for two. Probably the most sorrel I have ever eaten at one go. Amazing. (London, which has so much to offer gastronomically, doesn't run to selling the bunches of sorrel I believe you can buy at any market in France.)
scott fthe dirty secret of car culture is that without constant implicit threats of violence, cars would be far too inefficient to ever get anywhere in the city.
only a real asshole will say that out loud, but it’s always been true!
Was reading The Winding Stair so decided to look up the restaurant of the same name in Dublin, a lovely lentil soup & carrot cake place back in the day. 😬💶💶💶
Further to an earlier thread on the interface between Irish traditional and baroque music, I've only just discovered this fascinating group thanks to The Rolling Wave. cc @bthalpin @wexfordkate
I tend to think of Kavanagh and Yeats as inhabiting different worlds, I suppose because they represent the two dominant irreconcilable traditions in Irish poetry in English up to the 60s. But of course AE was an important link.
TIL that the first edition of Patrick Kavanagh's The Great Hunger was published by the Cuala Press at the decision of W.B. Yeats's widow, who had taken over the direction of the press after the death of F.R.Higgins.
Anyway it's on BBC Sounds now. Recommended.