An excerpt from Christopher Tayler’s review of Ian McEwan’s Saturday in the London Review of Books, as I love Ramachandran’s and Lodge’s thoughts here:
In Consciousness and the Novel (2002), David Lodge quotes V.S. Ramachandran describing the need
London Review of Books, 5 March 2005
Photos taken 20 Mar 2005
20 Mar 2005 in Writing
- Guardian Review, 19 March 2005
- Ian McEwan on how one person taking someone else’s boots leads to the collapse of society (well, almost).
20 Mar 2005 in Links
- Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | The invisible man
- David Nicholls on realising, after eight years as an actor, that he just wasn’t very good.
20 Mar 2005 in Comments elsewhere
- Plasticbag.org: I’m going to get lynched…
- That is class Mr Coates! You see, your musings about super-connected digital media streaming hubs are all very well, but never forget they have A Dark Side!…
On this day I was reading
- The Diary of Samuel Pepys: 1662 v. 3 by Robert Latham (Editor), William Matthews (Editor), Samuel Pepys (Author)
- The Believer, Vol. 2 No. 11, November 2004
- Damsels in Distress by Alan Ayckbourn
Music listened to most that week
- Bettie Serveert (34)
- Hank Williams (11)
- PJ And The Galaxies (7)
- Luscious Jackson (6)
- Journeymen (5)
- Brian Eno (4)
- Guided By Voices (4)
- Portishead (3)
- The Cure (3)
- The Velvet Underground (3)