ON THE SCRAPHEAP study & discussion group.

luka

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It's a great title isn't it. I was about to turn 40. So that's one reason. About to turn 40, social pariah, outcast, no qualifications, no career, no cv, no hope.

Also it is like being on a brilliant scrapheap of language as you will see and appreciate as you read it
 

catalog

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I'm not sure about the challenging language and how I will fair with that element, but I'll give it a go. I'll make it my challenge this weekend
 

Woebot

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yeah that's an epic poem. i loved it. found myself laughing at a few of your jokes in there.
 

luka

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"If you chopped it up into a series of short lyric poems they'd be the best lyrics poems in the English language. If you cut out all the in-between you could market it as something completely different and respectable. But it wouldn't be nearly as rich a compost.

At the level of pure writing it's outrageously good. Unprecedented. Supreme. But it's not content with mere mastery."

That's a review I just wrote of ON THE SCRAPHEAP.
 

Woebot

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i think you need to get your archivist to go through and make footnotes on the little touches which might become obscure over time. your references to to contemporary things which might become oblique.

then we need it chisellled on a rockface in the black mountains like a massive edstone.
 

luka

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What I've realised just now in the bath, is that it is part of the very fabric of the English language. It's eternal and it's immaculate. It just is. It's there, this thing, diamond.
 
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