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Iain Dale and David Baddiel feel sorry for Starmer, but the Public don't, so...
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"Just One Look" is a song co-written by #American #RAndB singers #DorisTroy and #GregoryCarroll. The recording by Doris Troy was a hit in 1963. #TheHollies, #AnneMurray, #LindaRonstadt and #IainMatthews each achieved success with the song. There have also been many other versions.
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#IainMBanks #TheCulture #SurfaceDetail
I've decided to re-read the entire series of Culture novels and short stories this summer. Been musing which one to start with. Not by order of publication. I'll take them in whichever order I feel like, one-by-one, starting today with Surface Detail because I remember fondly the character Lededje Y'breq who is taught and trained by the Mind on her ship Of Course I Still Love You.
Mmm, delicious Culture immersion.
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@iain --
I understand that.
I'm playing/reviewing March of the Ants right now. It is a 4X that plays in two hours.
It might hit that spot for you.
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"Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot."
~ Iain Banks
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"Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so."
~ Iain Banks
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Iain M Banks - Feersum Endjinn
Not his best.
Iain M. Banks has a fantasy that now and the spirals almost out of control right into the trippy levels of scifi. When that is DMT-ish (short and very weird) I love it. Unfortunately Feersum Endjinn is more like taking just too little LSD - it works very long, but the weirdness stays just above 'base reality' ;-)
If you want scifi about people uploading themselves, try Greg Egan - Diaspora. If you want Banks' scifi (re)read the Culture novels. I know I will.
#WatWouterLas26 #LezenIsLeuk #Audiobook #ScienceFiction #Reading #Bookstodon #Boekstadon
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I was introduced to Iain M. Banks when I picked up "Look to Windward" at a grocery store in 2002. Remember when grocery stores had a sci-fi rack? sigh.
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St George-in-the-East. A Hawksmoor church partly destroyed in the Blitz #iainsinclair #london #photography #britain
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@Nickiquote this is how I feel when Elon Musk desecrates the memory of Iain M Banks
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Iain McGregor captures this adorable shot of a Ruru/Morepork being cared for at Christchurch's South Island Wildlife Hospital in Episode Two of the stuff.co.nz series 'This Is How It Ends'. Want to donate to SIWH? https://wildlifehospital.co.nz/help-us/ Source: https://instagram.com/p/CVwzuBIMn-n/ #owlsintowels 💛🦉
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Oh that's really good. And to bring up one of the best from one of the best! You made my day!
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Iain Banks' The Wasp Factory is NOT the kind of book I like to read, but the man can't half tell a story. The denouement waits for the final pages, and is jaw-dropping; the only doubt left in the reader's mind is the plausibility, as the story is so strange.
WARNING: this review in particular has big spoilers; don't read it if you think you will one day read the book yourself, as it WILL spoil your reading pleasure.
https://khleedril.org/dale-mellor/bookblog/?review=the-wasp-factory
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𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀-𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝘂𝗿 𝗜𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗚𝗹𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗸𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗩𝗶𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻
De Schotse acteur Iain Glen spreekt de tiendelige podcastserie Real Vikings in van audionetwerk Noiser. De serie gaat op 10 maart in première en onderzoekt de historische werkelijkheid achter de Vikingcultuur.
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𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀-𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝘂𝗿 𝗜𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗚𝗹𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗸𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗩𝗶𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻
De Schotse acteur Iain Glen spreekt de tiendelige podcastserie Real Vikings in van audionetwerk Noiser. De serie gaat op 10 maart in première en onderzoekt de historische werkelijkheid achter de Vikingcultuur.
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𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀-𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝘂𝗿 𝗜𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗚𝗹𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗸𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗩𝗶𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻
De Schotse acteur Iain Glen spreekt de tiendelige podcastserie Real Vikings in van audionetwerk Noiser. De serie gaat op 10 maart in première en onderzoekt de historische werkelijkheid achter de Vikingcultuur.
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𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀-𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝘂𝗿 𝗜𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗚𝗹𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗸𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗩𝗶𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻
De Schotse acteur Iain Glen spreekt de tiendelige podcastserie Real Vikings in van audionetwerk Noiser. De serie gaat op 10 maart in première en onderzoekt de historische werkelijkheid achter de Vikingcultuur.
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RE: https://mastodon.scot/@scotlit/116080616274217433
⭐️⭐️⭐️🧵On the writing and influence of #iainmbanks — his double life as an author
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Iain M. Banks (1954–2013) was born #OTD, 16 Feb: a 🎂 🧵
1/13“Iain Banks… is a novelist who has his own ‘double’, an author for whom the idea of a split writing persona is emphatically not out of place”
—“Reading Double, Writing Double: The Fiction of Iain (M) Banks” – a 2010 article on Banks’s genre-busting career
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2010/11/reading-double-writing-double-the-fiction-of-iain-m-banks/
#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture
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"One of your American professors said that to study religion was merely to know the mind of man, but if one truly wanted to know the mind of God, you must study physics."
~ Iain Banks, born today, 1954.
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“An elevated tone marries an almost imagistic focus. It’s a small poem that gives an impression of spaciousness. [… Iain Crichton Smith] is a poetic painter and storyteller central to the literary biography of 20th-century Scotland.”
—Carol Rumens writing on Iain Crichton Smith’s poem “Neighbour”
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #IainCrichtonSmith
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Build me a bridge over the stream
to my neighbour’s house
where he is standing in dungarees
in the fresh morning…—Iain Crichton Smith, “Neighbour”
published in NEW COLLECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 2011)https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781857549607/new-collected-poems/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #IainCrichtonSmith
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@kathol Ich hab nur die Culture eBooks auf deutsch und englisch…
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Few animals scare full-grown African elephants. -- But bees are among them.
So it was to bees that
#Iain #Douglas-#Hamilton looked when he sought to draw a line between the pachyderms’ domain and humanity’s.The farmers of Samburu, the Kenyan county where his research was based,
bore elephants no ill will as long as the beasts kept out of their smallholdings.But the elephants did not know that.
#Bee #fences—hives established at regular intervals on a farm’s perimeter—not only deterred the interlopers, they also yielded a mellifluous profit.
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"Just One Look" is a song co-written by #American #RAndB singers #DorisTroy and #GregoryCarroll. The recording by Doris Troy was a hit in 1963. #TheHollies, #AnneMurray, #LindaRonstadt and #IainMatthews each achieved success with the song. There have also been many other versions.
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"Just One Look" is a song co-written by #American #RAndB singers #DorisTroy and #GregoryCarroll. The recording by Doris Troy was a hit in 1963. #TheHollies, #AnneMurray, #LindaRonstadt and #IainMatthews each achieved success with the song. There have also been many other versions.
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"Just One Look" is a song co-written by #American #RAndB singers #DorisTroy and #GregoryCarroll. The recording by Doris Troy was a hit in 1963. #TheHollies, #AnneMurray, #LindaRonstadt and #IainMatthews each achieved success with the song. There have also been many other versions.
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"Just One Look" is a song co-written by #American #RAndB singers #DorisTroy and #GregoryCarroll. The recording by Doris Troy was a hit in 1963. #TheHollies, #AnneMurray, #LindaRonstadt and #IainMatthews each achieved success with the song. There have also been many other versions.
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(Is the world’s richest man remembering all the times when #IainBanks wrote “Money is a sign of poverty”?)
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It seems that Elon is talking more about #IainBanks in interviews lately. Is he doing a reread? Is he getting to the parts where people with power do actually intervene to help people out instead of just talking?