Sad to hear the news! I loved The British Museum Is Falling Down -- extremely funny stuff and its brilliant use of pastiche did the great thing of giving one the feeling of being in on the joke.
It's a brilliant book. To quote a friend who reread it homage: "chortled mightily at the scene where he tries to explain the Rhythm Method to a nymphette while trying to acquire the manuscript of a raunchy novel by a minor Edwardian critic while avoid the meat-cleavers of butchers with missing fingers."
I remember my excitement when "The Picturegoers" was reissued by Penguin in the early 1990s. I still have "Deaf Sentence" and the WElls novel to read. I have the hardbacks, at least one signed.
Ahhh I'm gutted by this news--though he had a long and productive life, it still feels sad that all of his work is done.
I'd always meant to write him a letter saying how much I'd appreciated his endeavors (loved his novels--"Thinks..." is also a great read--and benefitted from his insights into the practice of writing) and I'd spent much time and money tracking down hardcover editions of all of his novels and much of his literary work.
Grateful for this notice and tribute from another writer whose work I've attempted to track down and collect in hardcover editions and whose work I've also enjoyed immensely!!
On being "seen": it's worse than you say, because in Lodge's account what we do isn't a conjuring trick at all, but only the "patter" that magicians deploy *between* tricks. I.e., students keep waiting for the tricks but we never give them any.
Sad to hear the news! I loved The British Museum Is Falling Down -- extremely funny stuff and its brilliant use of pastiche did the great thing of giving one the feeling of being in on the joke.
It's a brilliant book. To quote a friend who reread it homage: "chortled mightily at the scene where he tries to explain the Rhythm Method to a nymphette while trying to acquire the manuscript of a raunchy novel by a minor Edwardian critic while avoid the meat-cleavers of butchers with missing fingers."
I remember my excitement when "The Picturegoers" was reissued by Penguin in the early 1990s. I still have "Deaf Sentence" and the WElls novel to read. I have the hardbacks, at least one signed.
Ahhh I'm gutted by this news--though he had a long and productive life, it still feels sad that all of his work is done.
I'd always meant to write him a letter saying how much I'd appreciated his endeavors (loved his novels--"Thinks..." is also a great read--and benefitted from his insights into the practice of writing) and I'd spent much time and money tracking down hardcover editions of all of his novels and much of his literary work.
Grateful for this notice and tribute from another writer whose work I've attempted to track down and collect in hardcover editions and whose work I've also enjoyed immensely!!
Thank you, Gregory!
On being "seen": it's worse than you say, because in Lodge's account what we do isn't a conjuring trick at all, but only the "patter" that magicians deploy *between* tricks. I.e., students keep waiting for the tricks but we never give them any.
Darn it, you're right.