Comments on: Back, back, back

By: Dagmar

Dagmar — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 08:19:33 +0000

Fauteil is an armchair philosopher. There are many such in the Hermits Cave. Some are stool philosophers. Celine sometimes came in, scowling at the lot of them. Barthes used to get completely deconstructed — sometimes all that was left was a hat.

By: Mushtimushta

Mushtimushta — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:56:53 +0000

I can’t find either Daniel or Auteuil in my Collins Pocket Dictionary, so I’m afraid I have no idea what you are talking about, Lord H!

By: Lord Bunty Chunk

Lord Bunty Chunk — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 09:46:25 +0000

Lord Henry, your acutley powerful sensitive organ has cut through the veil of ignorance and has percieved a profound truth, namely than it is conjectured that Flashman was my father — the father I never met.…

By: Lord Henry

Lord Henry — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 23:18:33 +0000

Lord Bunty Chuck — your blog seems to consist of a picture of Flashman, and your shiny sword.

If that was your intention, it’s a work of bloody genius! Sign me up!

Mushtimushta — draw the curtains and ponder? You mean like Daniel Auteuil in HIDDEN? I prefer to go forth in all my splendour, twirling my monocle in the bright light of day.

Chris Langham was at Sandhurst with me. Coincidence?

“Innocent until proven guilty,” that was always Carstairs’ defence. Speaking of Carstairs, I’ve just seen a ticket stub in his cubbyhole for a flight to Montreal. Has anything happened in Montreal this evening?

I can’t feel my left hand. Is this a bad sign?

By: Lord Bunty Chunk

Lord Bunty Chunk — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:45:07 +0000

Friends, in a move otherwise irrelevant to the foregoing proceedings, may I be bold enough to refer you to my newly initiated and very fine blog:lord-bunty-chunk.blogspot.com/

Although I have eschewed this recent technological innovation for as long as possible I find that as so often happens with such things one is in the position of dear King Canute fighting the sea, although in my case reference to Caligula’s war on much the same sea would be more fitting.

By: Mushtimushta

Mushtimushta — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:45:51 +0000

So, I wonder if the tradition of putting vinegar on fish & chips has its roots in some ancient attempt to bring the fish back to life, Dagmar? Perhaps our Foremothers/fathers were assuming that the fish had been stung by a sea wasp? Makes you wonder, doesn’t it?
Lord H — I resent your comment that I would have to go and look up Antipodes, but forgive you because throughout military training as a boy, you were gullible enough to believe that line about “I’m only doing this because I think you’ve been stung by a wasp”. You poor deluded fellow. I suspect their motivations were somewhat darker. Go and poor yourself a drink, draw the curtains, and ponder!

By: Mark Dodds

Mark Dodds — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:58:02 +0000

All this must be turned into a screenplay.

No joking.

By: Dagmar

Dagmar — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:52:42 +0000

He may have done, I’ve been awfully sleepy. Maybe it’s the humidity. Lucas Gardens is like the African Garden at the Horniman, or so it seems, steams, streams, dreams… I was in Peckham at lunchtime and saw again the sign for Victory Food Stores: “Jesus is Lord Phil.” The Mitchell brothers from East Enders have gone neo-con, or so it seems in my mistiness.

By: Lord Henry

Lord Henry — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:38:47 +0000

Carstairs didn’t offload my opium onto you, did he, Dagmar? If he did, that’s receiving, and I will be on to the Filth to drag you down to Carter Street and give you a good going-over, as in days of yore.

By: Dagmar

Dagmar — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:16:15 +0000

Carstairs may fall into the category “prankton”. I’m told planets and plankton are both drifters, in Greek. What a wonderful range of wandering, from the tiny phyloplankton to the mighty Saturn, whose heavy influence weighs on me as I consider the labyrinth of streets that spell the word DULL. More Peckham Lidl vin de pays!