“Sod the wine, I want to suck on the writing. This man White is an instinctive writer, bloody rare to find one who actually pulls it off, as in still gets a meaning across with concision. Sharp arbitrage of speed and risk, closest thing I can think of to Cicero’s ‘motus continuum animi.’

Probably takes a drink or two to connect like that: he literally paints his senses on the page.”


DBC Pierre (Vernon God Little, Ludmila’s Broken English, Lights Out In Wonderland ... Winner: Booker prize; Whitbread prize; Bollinger Wodehouse Everyman prize; James Joyce Award from the Literary & Historical Society of University College Dublin)


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13 December 2015

TRIPPING OUT AT PENFOLDS MAGILL

'Twas trippy enough dining at the Magill Estate Restaurant last night, watching this nuts sky stuff from the table ... "And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke" saith the Lord ... then, in the midst of one the greatest meals I've eaten in this life at least, that same calm Adelaide sky turned into this:

... very strange, strangely blessed burgh, wee Adelaide ... true story ... that's Dr and Mrs Mary Penfold's cottage in the old Grange vineyard at right ... Mary was one of Australia's first female winemakers ... and not the least influential in the very long term ... oh lordy lordy ... check that out ... click to big ... untouched photos by Philip White... go Hanna!

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