I am amused to see that Private Eye has lampooned Duncan Fallowell's NZ travel book Going As Far As I Can as Alan Hollinghurst's summer reading choice. They call Duncan Esmé Smirk. Once upon a time the mag called Duncan Creepy - I don't know why.
It has also been drawn to my attention that Amazon has stopped listing his book on their New Zealand list. It only comes up on the Australian one. I wonder if Kiwis vandalised the site - they have twice vandalised his Wikipedia entry.
And I learn that Duncan has completed his ghost story. I'm intrigued as to what he means by a ghost story ....
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Oh just change your newspaper, dearie. People really must learn not to be dictated to by hairy testicles who call themselves newspaper editors. Oh, hello Rebekah. Take up knitting or something; after a while you fear nothing but a dropped stitch and you're doing something useful instead of leaving racist rightwing comments normally not given oxygen beyond the safe confines of your average newspaper editor's office.
Is it a post-modernist ghost? Perhaps it's a self-conscious ghost who haunts because he's seen lots of spooky films
Or a writer's ghost in search of a ghost-writer?
I'm frightened of ghosts coz I've never seen one.
I don't understand Arcati's reference to hairy testicles.
It's possible the hairy testicles Madame refers to are a metaphor for male power on newspapers. But then again I could be wrong.
Post-modern ghosts are to be found in Guillermo Del Toro's movies like The Devil's Backbone or Pan's Labyrinth - the other world tells us things of our history and sins as a sort of living folklore in our lives. I could say more but I'll save it for Sight & Sound.
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