tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6604628.post4622286775606178429..comments2023-09-28T23:45:22.980-12:00Comments on The Police Diver's Notebook: Sick as a PikeNick Talbothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10122332897189553465noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6604628.post-70521453933861173852007-12-17T11:45:00.000-12:002007-12-17T11:45:00.000-12:00Get your shit together and just write that Pikey C...Get your shit together and just write that Pikey Cthulhu-cult novella before Stuart Home gets there first.Daniel Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08135019080307445764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6604628.post-65967564770009914632007-12-06T07:58:00.000-12:002007-12-06T07:58:00.000-12:00In Germany we use to say "Ooh, poor black tomcat",...In Germany we use to say "Ooh, poor black tomcat", if somebody is fishing for compassion.<BR/><BR/>A hangover as a consequence of senseless booze-up is also called "tomcat" in Germany. One shell eat herrings to drive the tomcat away. <BR/><BR/>To pass away your time while coughing between the cushions, I warmly recommed this cure to all fishermen's friends (Always remember:if they are too weak, you're too strong!):<BR/><BR/>"Gills" by Niccolò Ammaniti. <BR/><BR/>Desmond O'Grady wrote about this book: <BR/><BR/>"How to succeed without really failing<BR/><BR/>Niccolo Ammaniti is a success as a writer because of his failure as a biologist. Or, rather, had he graduated as a biologist he might not have become one of Italy's most acclaimed novelists. He passed 16 exams at Rome University but lied to his father that he had passed the full 18 and was starting his final thesis.<BR/><BR/>His father, a Freudian psychologist, invited Ammaniti to use his study for three months while completing the thesis. There was no thesis to write. Instead, Ammaniti began a sombre narrative about a man who breeds fish but faces death within three months from lung cancer. To make some money while studying, Ammaniti himself had bred fish for a vendor of aquariums.<BR/><BR/>A friend in publishing told Ammaniti that he had been asked to launch a series of books by new writers. Ammaniti showed him his manuscript and received a promise that, once completed, it would be published. Ammaniti was so exhilarated that, in contrast to the sad first section, the second part of the narrative acquired a brighter, surreal tone. The breeder is invited to New Delhi to build a huge aquarium, becomes a kind of mythological hero, acquires gills and finally, becomes an exhibit in a Berlin aquarium.<BR/><BR/>Published as Gills, it secured Ammaniti's writing life: since then he has lived from his narratives, cultural journalism and screen writing. A book of short stories (Mud) followed and brought strong, mixed reactions because it combined comedy and violence, normal characters with others who were zombies or part human, part machine."<BR/><BR/>Read the whole article at:<BR/>www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/05/09/1052280430712.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com