Do You Like Kipling ?

I don't know - I've never kipled. (Copyright, The Recluse, c. 1973).

Well, the Boy Wonder didn't win any prizes in last weekend's music competitions, despite being entered in the Junior Strings, Intermediate Piano, Lower-Intermediate Combined Piano-and-Strings, Upper-Middle-Class Strings-and-Piano and Most Promising Newcomer In A Musical Role categories. And if he was at all disappointed at being passed over (again!) for a Lifetime Achievement award, he wasn't showing it.

Indeed, it strikes me that, even if thankfully he has spent rather more time fraternising with Triumph than with Disaster, the BW has not only met those infamous Two Imposters, but he has, as Mr Kipling recommended (in between mouthfuls of exceedingly good cake) learnt to treat them just the same.

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[One-time-surfer]

I just finished David Mitchell's book Cloud Atlas. It seems to me that Mr Mitchell had rather hoped that interweaving five mediocre novellas might make one great novel. Inspired by this approach, I tried interweaving five rather pleasant foods (swordfish, ice cream, humous, chocolate cookies and thick Dutch pea soup) to make one culinary tour de force. The result, as with the book, was predictable. All right, to be fair, Cloud Atlas is not a BAD book, in fact it's perfectly adequate ... but certainly no greater than the sum of its parts.

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