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Loan sharks and unicorns

June 11, 2015 By Jordan

Love’s pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.

He was doing quite well until the last sentence, but if you bare your arse to a vengeful unicorn, the number of possible outcomes dwindles to one.

…oh, you’re clever, David Mitchell. Clever indeed. From The Bone Clocks. I can’t wait till his last novel when he reveals that “David Mitchell” is the pseudonym for Jason Taylor.

Filed Under: Prose Porn, Things I wish I'd written Tagged With: David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

Pre-haunting with David Mitchell…

August 26, 2014 By Jordan

I imagine the cove in darkness. I imagine it in a storm. I imagine it in 30 years. “You’ve pre-haunted it,” I tell him.

…from this brilliant Vulture article on David Mitchell‘s new book, The Bone Clocks. The article itself is beautiful, and I’m nine tenths of the way to convincing myself to slag off reading assignments next week and jump into this novel the second it goes on sale.

Yes, I’m aware this is two posts in a row referencing DM. And why shouldn’t it be? Dude’s work has more depth than the Bible.

Filed Under: Predicates and commas and whatnot Tagged With: David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks