An auspicious beginning ...

[blamebrampton]

I had planned to write a short thought-filled essay today.

Prior to that, I had a dinner engagement with a friend who is over from London. I wrote out her Christmas/New Year card. I wished her all the best for 2007.

Dinner was delightful, and I have now downgraded my plans to mineral water and a paperback.

All the best!

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[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

The Go-Betweens were such an amazing band ...

I've been quite enjoying the Marples, despite thinking I didn't like them very much. I think I was too young to get all her sly humour and satire when I first read them. And you know me, satire will always win me over!

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I read all of them in translation when young and will try to get the Marples if and when I can. I know she herself got sick of Poirot as well, though yes, of course, I find all my romance and humour and humanity in mysteries (not as such but the few better books happen to fall into that genre where the non-genre stuff shines brightly as it doesn't in the genres where it should).
Satire today is what tragedy once used to be, at least that was one of if not the first papers I wrote about the theatre.