Dover
luka
Well-known member
im really strong and powerful. made of teak. also i did it in 3 days. its about 1000 miles i think particularly if you go round the dungeness spit. which of course you have to. being wedged between a military firing range and a rickety old nuclear power station. the terminal beach.
Ah right. Good stuff anyway, 3 days we'll spent.
Yeah that beach at dungeness is good. Loads of old colourful washed up plastic in the stones.
luka
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sinclair said hastings reminded him of hackney. and hes right in that hackney was full of property flippers from north london. similar thing. degenerates who didnt want to work. bohemians who were also canny investors. same dynamic. then the squares moved in and it became the worst place in the world. the balance is always very fragile.
Reminds me of what Beiser was saying about Chris Kraus in the Semiotext(e) thread. There was some Twitterstorm about bell hooks being a landlord too.
luka
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this is just one of many things which are no longer possible. the capitalist competition heats up without respite and no one is allowed a lunch time pint any more. you have to seek every advantage. go to the gym. devleop a strong handshake. bulge out of your austin reed shirt. go to bed early on the weekend.
STN
sou'wester
My friend once slept in a bus shelter at the docks in Dover, in order to get a very early ferry. Before bedding down he was wandering around the desolate docks, trying to find something to eat. Eventually he saw someone, called out to him and asked ‘is there anywhere around here I could buy some food’ and the bloke looked him dead in the eye and just said ‘there’s nothing round here, mate’. Abjection.
luka
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its a good place for day trip. maybe walk from dover to folkstone along the cliffs. its a good walk. but its true, theres not a lot of economic activity,
ferries aside. its like south london in that respect, theres no life there. south london doesnt even have ferries though so dover has the advantage there
ferries aside. its like south london in that respect, theres no life there. south london doesnt even have ferries though so dover has the advantage there
shakahislop
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spent about an hour in dover once. quite like how old european holiday coastal bits have these grimy towns. france is the same. the sussex coast is really interesting for this. 'nice' places awash with money and places that used to be nice mixed up together. it comes as a bit of a surprise going through them sometimes, though it shouldn't.