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Sep 4, 2020Liked by John Birmingham

I saw that earlier and found it a great read. Yeh, it's depressing but so is the state of the world. Nice bit of word-munching.

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I too found it, and it was very good. I even thought I should buy the book when it comes out even if the other contributors have nothing but word salad. I'm also amazed at the relative ease of you flipping between the splodey and the thinky.

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Yeah, it's weird innit.

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Sep 4, 2020Liked by John Birmingham

I sent this piece to a friend who is not a consumer of your splodey writing, with an excerpt of your description of Morrison with his lump of coal, and her response was "Oh wow! That's magnificent."

My response was "He’s SO good, i know why he spends so much of his talent fictionally blowing up the world, since that’s what pays, but when he turns his eye to real world stuff he shines."

Just a little rub for your ego there 😇

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FB does have its uses, such as seeing it when stuff like this pops for observers on the other side of the globe. Tough reading for tough times.

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