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Friendships: Philip K Dick

By Tim Aldiss
July 1, 2019March 21, 2024friendshipsLeave a Comment on Friendships: Philip K Dick

In one of his essays, Joseph Brodsky, talking about Osip Mandelstam, says this about our lives: Any poet, no matter how much he writes, expresses in his verse, physically or statistically speaking, at most one tenth of his life’s reality. The rest is normally shrouded in darkness. Is this admirable remark what we feel about […]

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Friendships: J.R.R. Tolkien

By Tim Aldiss
February 8, 2019March 21, 2024friendshipsLeave a Comment on Friendships: J.R.R. Tolkien

Mention has been made of the Inklings. This was the literary group which met frequently in the aforementioned pub, The Bird and Baby. The leading members were C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. One was accustomed to seeing Tolkien bustling along in the Broad, clutching a copy of Sweet’s Anglo-Saxon Primer. Possibly he was then – […]

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Friendships: Marie Bashkirtseff

By Tim Aldiss
March 11, 2015March 21, 2024friendshipsLeave a Comment on Friendships: Marie Bashkirtseff

Brian’s UK publishers The Friday Project is curating a series of short anecdotes that Brian has written about some of the many literary greats that he has been fortunate enough to know and meet over his illustrious career, and others that he has simply admired. In a short series here on Brian’s blog we publish […]

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