7 October 2010
As good as a new pair of knickers
Deborah Friedell
From Playing the Game by Belle de Jour:
jeudi, le 03 novembre
Sigh. My boys love me, they do. And do they ever know what sets my tiny heart a-racing. The last two of my birthday gifts have finally come through: from A2, a gift voucher from Figleaves; from A4, a subscription to the London Review of Books.
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7 October 2010
at
9:54am
Joe Morison
says:
I wonder if any of her fans experimented with the LRB after reading that, and if they did what they made of it.
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7 October 2010
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1:03pm
Imperialist
says:
"I think we could start by approaching Billy Budd as Melville's justification of the ways of God to man, n'est-ce pas?"
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7 October 2010
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1:35pm
Martin
says:
A careful selection of pages with Peter Campbell's illustrations could be turned into tasteful pairs of paper knickers. Perhaps that was the idea.
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7 October 2010
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2:14pm
Joe Morison
says:
Personally, i find the LRB comfortable and it does give me the support i need.
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8 October 2010
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3:25am
outofdate
says:
The LRB should take some pointers from the style: lean, trim, nubile even, yet playful.
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8 October 2010
at
4:16am
outofdate
says:
Also, if it makes you feel better: as good as a good pair of knickers, the mark, surely, of a well-furnished closet, especially given her profession. A lot of writers fetishize their fountain pens, don't they, and these notebooks with the silly name you can get, supposedly used by Hemingway. Everyone likes a nice tool.
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8 October 2010
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8:25am
A.J.P. Crown
says:
Why didn't she already have a subscription? And how did he know that?
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8 October 2010
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10:55am
outofdate
says:
@
A.J.P. Crown
Maybe she dropped a hint.
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