BillF

Always read all posts since my last visit.

Had a go at it in my youth. Regret to say I never got to the end.

Bubber Miley Venus de Milo Prince of Darkness

Emeric Pressburger Old MacDonald Art Farmer

I recently read All That Is. Here's my Goodreads review: I had two reactions to All That Is - the narrative/story line wasn't much - basically a man who thinks that the next woman is going to be "the one", with a nasty bit of revenge thrown in. That gets three stars. I would never reread the novel for that. I may return to it because of the craft with which Mr. Salter writes. There are innumerable sentences, paragraphs, and scenes which I would like to reread just in order to study what the author has done. The revenge passage, for example, was so well written that I was almost able to forget about the evil involved. Five stars for the craft of the writing. Just finished All That Is. Fully agree with your assessment, Paul. Numerous paragraphs could function perfectly on their own as brief short stories.I wonder just how autobiographical this book is.

Perkin Warbeck Pinky and Perky Joe "Fingers" Carr

Betty Boop B Bopstein Big Bopper

Bartholomew Bandy Bart Simpson Lisa Simpson

Edward Teller David Storey Teddy Tail

Tony Blackburn Erasmus B Black Lady Heavy Bottom

Ozrick Tentacles Hamlet The Village People

Ovary Lodge David Lodge The Lodger

Karl Lagerfeld Al Foster David Cronenberg

Posh Spice Lord Snooty and His Pals The Cameroons

Le Duc Tho Wade Legge Ian Armit

Larry Kart Shaft Peter Bonke

Angel Clare Clare Fischer Fisher King

He made it by quitting jazz.

High Plains Drifter Otis P Driftwood Flotsam And Jetsam

Mr Kipling Kipps Sleepy

Tarzan Michael Heseltine David Hazeltine

Edna Everage Fred Bloggs Tweetie Pie

Pat Mountain Mrs Mounter Rider Haggard

Re British jazz, I have a feeling there may be an autobiographical aspect to this one, though I concede it's not a composition.

Bird's recovery from breakdown is recorded in "Relaxin' at Camarillo", his first visit to Europe in "Passport" and "Visa" and his children in "Kim" and "Laird Baird". The two most important women in Monk's life appear in "Crepuscule with Nellie" and "Pannonica" and "Green Chimneys" is the private school he sent his daughter to.