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Modestly introducing Tallis Steelyard (Now nominated!)
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Aug 10, 2018 06:10AM
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He's quite the all-rounder! But my admiration also goes to the clerk - he really does his job well.
Yes, Tildus Thallawell's little foible has been mentioned before. The idea of the criminals with the takeaway pizza brought Tallis into it.The important person had to be the clerk of works. Thallawell can provide the money, but Gisset is a true master of his craft. :-)
Strikes me that Tallis has a touch of CMOT Dibbler about him. Only a touch though.
Gingerlily - All kinds of everything! wrote: "Strikes me that Tallis has a touch of CMOT Dibbler about him. Only a touch though."I think Tallis will do anything to avoid having a proper job, because if he has a proper job, he isn't a poet any more
That's true. Like the character in The Commitments who said he would “rather be an unemployed musician than an unemployed pipefitter.”
yes, I remember one lady who always said she was a 'resting actress' rather than just saying she was on the dole :-)
Yes, "resting" is something that some actors do quite a lot!
whereas if they were writers they could just keep working all the timeNot take home as much as a resting actor, but still, with writers not earning money or selling a lot of books is the sign that you've arrived as a serious artist :-)
Or whatever cleans you out...
That's the one. Everything done at the run!
I gave a cackle of joy at the end of that!
Gingerlily - All kinds of everything! wrote: "I gave a cackle of joy at the end of that!"I'm glad, it's nice to tell a story with a 'happy' ending
Happy for the right people.
of course, you can trust me to look after the right people ;-)
Poop and philosophy seem to go together...
hahahaha nice one Rosemary :)
Rosemary (grooving with the Picts) wrote: "The Tao of Pooh":-)
I am with Appian when it comes to philosophy
"Nor was it only in Athens that men played the part of tyrants as did he [Aristion, tyrant of Athens, 88BC] and before him Critias and his fellow philosophers. But in Italy, too, some of the Pythagoreans and those known as the Seven Wise Men in other parts of the Grecian world, who undertook to manage public affairs, governed more cruelly, and made themselves greater tyrants than ordinary despots; whence arose doubt and suspicion concerning other philosophers, whether their discourses about wisdom proceeded from a love of virtue or as a comfort in their poverty and idleness. We see many of these now, obscure and poverty stricken, wearing the garb of philosophy as a matter of necessity, and railing bitterly at the rich and powerful, not because they have any real contempt for riches and power, but from envy of the possessors of the same. Those whom they speak ill of have much better reason for despising them. These things the reader should consider as spoken against the philosopher Aristion, who is the cause of this digression.)"
This is from
Appian's History of Rome: The Mithridatic Wars The translation was made by Horace White;
I think we need to see Mutt in his pink jacket again :)
I suspect a certain amount of artistic license was involved.
mix too much with Mutt and you'll get your licence revoked :-)
Tallis had better be careful with his poetic licence.
Whatever happens, you will end up poorer...
instinctively I've been very wary of making Mutt the narrator of stories. I don't want to have to remove the mystery and make him too explicit
If you throw a cauliflower at someone ant it hits their ear, do they get a cauliflower ear?
*rubbing hands in anticipation*:)
:-)I found another interesting one as well
Is it of a lovely bunch of coconuts?
So yes then. Even if they aren't on display.
A bunch? I'd be a bit concerned if I saw a lady with a bunch of coconuts, it's too many
Jud wrote: "A bunch? I'd be a bit concerned if I saw a lady with a bunch of coconuts, it's too many"In this context, a bunch is understood to mean two.
apparently with cauliflowers a bunch is also two
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