During my latest absence Duncan Fallowell posted a movie on YouTube, all about his library. If you love Come Dine With Me and the latest Hello! incursion into a celebrity's home, but prefer a literary flavour to your vulgar curiosity, then this is for you: pour yourself a glass of wine, sit back and wander free through Duncan's mountain ranges of books (his 'whiffs of other worlds'). He is a marvellous guide.
Do writers have to be odd? Is there a God? What's invaded his bedroom? And has he ever boiled a lobster in his lobster pot?, now entombed by books. Which ancient civilisation was the most adult? 'Open a book and you're opening a door... they [books] are an expression of freedom.' I like his agnostic thoughts (mystery must be our salvation) and his reflections on the nature of respect. His best, most thoughtful film yet.
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This man makes books very glamorous. Should be played to every schoolkid in Britain
So are you back on blog now?
Excellent. Thanks so much for drawing this to your readers’ attention. I’m glad to have stuck with you (not that it was any kind of ordeal) for this and a number of other revelations.
Apparently I am though time is limited. But Madame is unsparing in her demands, and her public awaits.
Thank you Vincent. Madame is in benevolent mood right now. For the horror mask version, slip back to 2007.
I see an American site has picked up on this and said 'the narration is awesome'. But there are fantastic visual things to be spotted e.g The Latin Sexual Vocabulary
That voice!
Highly recommend on full screen, just keep clicking the video. Fantastic.
Don't know why you bothered to return Madame. You've lost your teeth, like all old bags do, and just become a camp colostomy bag of sweetness. And your association with The Lady is a big mistake since that Tory cunt who edits it will monitor ewverything you write here. I advise you book a one-way ticket to Dignitas.
Please stay for good. xxx
Love the mirrors
The so-called "Tory cunt" editor of The Lady has just heaped an embarrassing defeat on the Coalition by defeating it on the proposed privatisation of forests. If this is an example of her politics then I'llbe voting Tory Cunt at the next election.
I prefer the beauty of Duncan's world to this unseemly bickering
Bit of a whiffer meself
What's happened to DF's memoirs? I thought they were due out now. I was fully expecting an extract here.
It's coming. In May I think. Contact Ditto Press.
I'd love to have a look in here. Why doesn't Duncan open it to paying visitors? Like Chatsworth
Superb!
This has taken off in the USA - for releaxation therapy. We love his voice like a good sussed wizard from Harry Potter
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