My copy of the Dickens is two books in one ; Reprinted Pieces ( all the politics) and The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices . I got the MacMillan 1925 ; which is identical to the much more expensive 1896 edition. Less than a fiver . Think I have enjoyed the Reprinted Pieces best to be honest meatier and not so frivolous . I suppose I come at Dickens as a man of serious intent On that note ; I learnt today that Thomas Hardy got himself shipped many miles to get cremated ; there seemed to have been few crematoriums at the time . I wonder how many writers pre-planned their funerals ; I may work on that one ; that would make an interesting gothic road trip . Probably just anticipating the Manamas arrival tomorrow, Do you know of any writers and artists that pre-planned their funerals ? Love Rabbit holes. I did that trip in the lakes when I was 17 Ruskin; Wordsworth ; Beatrix Potter etc. No money and a hell of a lot of walking ; not by train haha. Been diverted as well from Unica Zurin's The Man in Jasmine to Henri Michaux (liking his stuff a lot) . She is a beautiful writer and that begs another question ; how many writers landed up in Mental Hospitals ? and why.? If you know any ; help me out . I think that magical realism is quite far out man and am interested in that side of things . Take Richard Dadd ; his characters are not so much the production of a mad man but are based on the Bestiaries etc . ; what about the dude that helped write the Oxford dictionary . Insanity is all relative ; but when violence enters the ring ; these people are condemned to one very very long writing retreat . Hello Jeremy . P.S not forgetting Blake and De Quincies addiction etc . Maybe it represented people in search of Utopias for whom ordinary dreariness was never going to be enough perhaps. Maybe I should reread the Road to Xanadu . These road trip things have got my imagination going even if it is just an internalised trip.
@@paulmagrs-g8n There is a Waterstones in town still, in the arcade that Marks and Spencer's is in. For a while we had two branches which did seem a bit excessive. But I'd have preferred they kept the other one.
Paul, do you have a P.O. box for us to write you? If so, can you share? Love your videos.
Loved that MOORCOCK Doctor Who book. Made that cosmology mesh with his own.
Was that a Wild Jeremy or … Bigfoot?!
My copy of the Dickens is two books in one ; Reprinted Pieces ( all the politics) and The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices . I got the MacMillan 1925 ; which is identical to the much more expensive 1896 edition. Less than a fiver . Think I have enjoyed the Reprinted Pieces best to be honest meatier and not so frivolous . I suppose I come at Dickens as a man of serious intent On that note ; I learnt today that Thomas Hardy got himself shipped many miles to get cremated ; there seemed to have been few crematoriums at the time . I wonder how many writers pre-planned their funerals ; I may work on that one ; that would make an interesting gothic road trip . Probably just anticipating the Manamas arrival tomorrow, Do you know of any writers and artists that pre-planned their funerals ? Love Rabbit holes. I did that trip in the lakes when I was 17 Ruskin; Wordsworth ; Beatrix Potter etc. No money and a hell of a lot of walking ; not by train haha. Been diverted as well from Unica Zurin's The Man in Jasmine to Henri Michaux (liking his stuff a lot) . She is a beautiful writer and that begs another question ; how many writers landed up in Mental Hospitals ? and why.? If you know any ; help me out . I think that magical realism is quite far out man and am interested in that side of things . Take Richard Dadd ; his characters are not so much the production of a mad man but are based on the Bestiaries etc . ; what about the dude that helped write the Oxford dictionary . Insanity is all relative ; but when violence enters the ring ; these people are condemned to one very very long writing retreat . Hello Jeremy . P.S not forgetting Blake and De Quincies addiction etc . Maybe it represented people in search of Utopias for whom ordinary dreariness was never going to be enough perhaps. Maybe I should reread the Road to Xanadu . These road trip things have got my imagination going even if it is just an internalised trip.
Sorry to report but that Waterstones in Lancaster near the Merchants is no more. It's now a restaurant!
@@jamesgriffithsmusic that’s really shocking,
@@paulmagrs-g8n There is a Waterstones in town still, in the arcade that Marks and Spencer's is in. For a while we had two branches which did seem a bit excessive. But I'd have preferred they kept the other one.