I suppose, in these strange times, we must get used to wildly inappropriate repackaging of literary classics - maybe it gets more people to buy them, even read them, even gain something from doing so, maybe - but this takes, does it not, the biscuit.
By the way, the lost video from my wilderness years with the Finnish Village People is now the number one viral video. And no wonder.
Friday, August 24, 2007
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
Now that would rock Amanda's socks off.
ReplyDeleteEmma wouldn't know what to do with those "buns of steel." In her day, zaftig was in!
ReplyDeleteAh zaftig, yes - lovely word...
ReplyDeleteEmma was surely cul de poire.
This blog is beginning to go all pear-shaped.
ReplyDeleteIf Manolo Blahnik co-wrote Madame Bovary, which appears to be the case according to The Conran Shop, why has Penguin Classics so disgracefully failed to acknowledge this hitherto unknown literary genius by omitting his name from the front cover?
ReplyDeleteI can't work out what those hands are doing; is it a round of applause, or is it someone preparing the after-sun cream?