Showing posts with label Gerald Kersh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gerald Kersh. Show all posts
Friday, March 30, 2018

Nailed down and in torment: Clock Without Hands by Gerald Kersh (1949)

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If you only have time for one Gerald Kersh book, make it Clock Without Hands (1949) from Valancourt Books. It contains 3 brilliant novellas...
Thursday, March 29, 2018

Sgt. Nelson over all

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....That's an old story, like the death of Nelson. We—it is typical of us—hide our admiration in our hearts, and giggle at "Kiss...

Sargeant Nelson of the Guards

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(N.B. Hilarious book 😃) “....You’ve got to start somewhere,” says Bearsbreath. “And where do you end?” asks Crowne, sourly. “I...

Gerald Kersh: There are occasions when the entire fabric of dialectical materialism seems to go phut

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....‘Sit down and pull yourself together. Tell me, what’s troubling you?’ ‘I must leave here in the morning,’ said Shakmatko, trembling in ...

Thicker than Water

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[Only words, but utterly brilliant and hilarious. Beginning of the story "Thicker than Water."] ‘YOU always were such a confounde...

Kicked in the mouth by one's horse

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....I have survived grape-shot in my ribs, a musket-ball in the stomach, a pistol-ball in the shoulder and, most miraculous of all, a bisca...

Absalom, Absalom pickles

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In the year of Our Lord 1796, Absalom Relish founded the House of Relish in a potting-shed, in Clodpuddle, in the County of Kent. The founda...