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Notes Chapter 1: Nissen hut – A cylindrical tin hut used predominantly on military bases Chapter 2: Tom Otter – A murderer from Saxilby - http://www.orpheusweb.co.uk/ynnad/tomo.htm, Captain Jack Sparrow – A fictional pirate film character played by Jonny Depp Chapter 3: Sting – A contemporary pop musician famous for songs like Roxanne, Mike Oldfield – A contemporary pop musician famous for his album Tubular Bells Chapter 4: The Doors – A 1960s rock band famously fronted by Jim Morrison, The Band – A 1960s rock band fronted by Robbie Robertson Chapter 5: Bjorn Borg – A champion tennis player (rival of Ilie Nastase), Ilie Nastase – A champion tennis player (rival of Bjorn Borg), Andy Murray – A champion tennis player, Chantecaille – A manufacturer of lip screen Chapter 6: Buffalo Bill – A nineteenth century American showman Chapter 7: Zmist – A metamorphic computer virus created by the Russian virus writer known as Z0mbie Chapter 9: Liam Gallagher – Lead singer with 1990s rock band Oasis, Ursonate – Epic sound poem by Kurt Schwitters Chapter 10: Beryl Cook – Twentieth Century British painter, Botticelli – Fifteenth Century Italian painter, Captain Cook – British Eighteenth Century explorer, Captain Scarlet – Eponymous character from the 1960s puppet TV series Captain Scarlet, Dr Watson – The sidekick of fictional detective Sherlock Holmes Chapter 11: Tristram Shandy or The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman – Eighteenth Century novel by Laurence Sterne recounting the life of its eponymous hero, Other Side of Love – Song by contemporary pop singer Sean Paul Chapter 12: John Boy – Principle character in the TV show The Waltons, Jon Pertwee – British TV actor most famous for his role as scarecrow Worzel Gummidge Chapter 15: Neoprene – specialist material used in the manufacture of wetsuits Chapter 18: Queen – 1980s rock band famous for their song We are the Champions, Crazy Frog – 2000s chipmunk style pop act, We are the World – Charity song written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Ritchie, Who wants the World? – Song by the punk group The Stranglers , ‘We want the World’ – Lyric from The Doors song When the Music’s Over, Petmix – A manufacturer of pet food, Belinda Carlisle – 1980s US pop singer Chapter 19: Joe Pesci – US film actor famous for his role as Tommy in Goodfellas Chapter 20: Danilo Dolci – Italian historian and documenter of Sicilian life, Enoch Powell – Tory Politician, Merz – One-man art movement invented by Kurt Schwitters, Justin Vitiello – Translator of Danilo Dolci Chapter 21: Boundary Road – Road that passes through Essex University, Ted Berrigan – 1950s New York School poet who taught at Essex University, Liquid – Nightclub in Colchester, Essex Chapter 24: KFC – A fashionable chain of fried chicken takeaways, Jim Morrison – Lead singer with The Doors, Quasimodo – Protagonist from Victor Hugo’s Nineteenth Century novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Chapter 27: Fredrikson mobile – Imaginary mobile as if designed by Patrick Fredrikson and Ian Stallard (contemporary designers), New Road and Paul Church – Two locations in Land’s End, A Hard Rain’s A-gonna Fall – Song by US folk singer Bob Dylan Chapter 28: Sandbourne – Thomas Hardy’s fictional name for Bournemouth, Plantarium – A tank for growing plants and animal life - http://www.theartofscience.eu/en/plantarium.htm, PIL (Pubic Image Limited) – 1980s post-punk band fronted by John Lydon, FSOL (Future Sound of London) – Contemporary electronic musicians Chapter 29: Michael Gove – A fashionable piece of chicken, Grantley Dee – 1960s rockabilly musician, Kevin Lin – Contemporary ultra-marathon runner and star of Running the Sahara Chapter 30: IED – Improvised explosive device, Chuck Berry – 1950s rock and roll musician, Abba – 1970s pop group, Ultimate Abba – UK-based Abba cover band, Ozzy Osbourne – Lead singer with heavy metal band Black Sabbath Chapter 31: Camels – A famous brand of cigarettes Chapter 32: Captain Sensible – bass player and later lead guitarist with 1970s punk group The Damned, Captain Beefheart – Twentieth Century rock musician, Help – Album by the rock group The Beatles, TLC – 1990s R and B pop group
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Crater Press have published a novel written in collaboration with Philip Terry. This is how they describe it: With purity of playfulness and razor-edge wit, this novel tells a story of true romance, and also the quest to find a decent place to get a drink. Anarchic, ridiculous, considered and capricious, When Two Are In Love or As I Came to Behind Frank’s Transporter is a unique vision of the peculiarity of attachment – of young sweethearts, passionate lovers and sticking it out until the very end. And just as love dissolves all in its path, here, as you read, the story starts to fall apart in your hands and turns into something else altogether. A kind of 21st century Metamorphoses.
Richard Makin has this to say about it: “Mentalist reiteration, a hallucinogenic interbreed with jokes in working order, each skew of the preceding paragraph a flawed echolalia, near-tautologies that nudge romantic love and the reader further into a reassuring pit of absurdity. I wanted to start chanting along out very loud, clapping my hands and stamping my hoofs to the arhythmia. This is literature as stroboscopic minimalism – total surface, no core – antinarrative narratives to collapse to, gently.” And here's Lily Robert-Foley: “When Two is a weird and sexy romp through hijacked romance narrative strands, that completely ruined romance novels for me in the best way possible. The effect is a series of strange renewing loops of story beginnings, that gently erode expectations, lulling the reader into a rhythmic fever dream that feels like watching a Nora Ephron film on acid. One travels in bits and pieces between two rampantly different, inter-contaminating worlds, the oddness of the transformation revealing the oddness of the original. I lolled.” It's available at the Lulu Crater page HERE |
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