Category Archives: Literature

Managers are born not made

Posted on May 12, 2015 by odeboyz

“I can’t sit still and see another man slaving and working. I want to get up and superintend, and walk round with my hands in my pockets, and tell him what to do. It is my energetic nature. I can’t … Continue reading →

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A Carnivore Reminisces

Posted on March 24, 2015 by odeboyz

“Herds of cattle had been driven into him by the immensity of his appetite, porkers by the score had trotted obediantly between his teeth.” David Hughes The Pork Butcher (Chris)

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The Old Curiosity Shop

Posted on February 20, 2015 by odeboyz

On attending a seminar at the L.S.E. (London School of Economics) at Lincoln’s Inn Fields (12th February 2015), Jan (my wife) and I got to the venue 30 minutes before we were due to register, so, as you do, we set … Continue reading →

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A Nihilist Praises Gambling

Posted on February 10, 2015 by odeboyz

A Punter Jim put his entire stake on the first race to get it over and done with straightaway. A Gambler “(He) was a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose… Show me a gambler and I’ll show … Continue reading →

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The Antidote of Sadism

Posted on February 3, 2015 by odeboyz

“The grey, threatening sky had turned black by now. It was a swollen mass of inky clouds, heavy with the thunder, lightning and rain which so often come in the course of an English summer to remind the island race … Continue reading →

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Novelists and their Sadistic Public

Posted on January 30, 2015 by odeboyz

The entirely random selection below is of the first incident of gratuitous violence in the eight novels cited. All of them are nasty, indeed, sadistic. The question, which will remain unanswered, is whether the novelist writing this sort of thing is … Continue reading →

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Existential Love

Posted on January 27, 2015 by odeboyz

“Marie came that evening and asked if I’d marry her. I said I didn’t mind; if she was keen on it, we’d get married”….Then she remarked that marriage was a serious matter. To which, I replied; “No.”…. Then she asked: … Continue reading →

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Book Review Vitriol

Posted on January 13, 2015 by odeboyz

This is, “toxically inaccurate drivel… I wish that was the only time that the staggering arrogance of Patterson’s ignorance made itself known in this volume. But alas…” Marisa Lingen reviews William H Patterson’s Robert A Heinlein: in dialogue with this … Continue reading →

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Winston Churchill, Victorian Warrior and Author at the battle of Omdurman, 1898

Posted on January 6, 2015 by odeboyz

“…on the other side bullets were shearing through flesh, smashing and splintering bone; blood spouted through terrible wounds; valient men were struggling on through a hell of whistling metal, exploding shells and spurting dust- suffering, despairing, dying.” Winston Churchill The … Continue reading →

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Astrophysics

Posted on December 9, 2014 by odeboyz

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy  (Chris)

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