“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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08 September 2013

WEDGIE GETS UP - AQUILA AUDAX

Fit and healthy mature Wedge-tailed Eagle [Aquila audax] dancing in her tutu in the bush ... notice Pirates' Party tattoo on right shoulderblade and trousers by Keith Richard ... photo by Pat Sprague ... for more about raptors in vineyards read this

1 comment:

KARRA YERTA WINES said...

I just drove through outback NSW and QLD and saw few wedgies. Sadly I did find two dead ones on the roadsides that had obviously been hit by cars. Such magnificent birds! Great photo by Pat!:)