Comments on Bookride: Laughing Torso / A Bohemian Word Cloud

So good to hear positive comments (over several po...

2009-10-28T14:07:19.368Z

So good to hear positive comments (over several posts) about Google Books from the trade. I work in books and ebook publishing, and on the web, and am frequently getting into fights about the future.

I'm not a total apologist for Google, but I think the Books programme is A Good Thing...

P.S. If you ever care to write about Jocelyn Brooke, I'll double my subscription. Or something.

Nina Hamnett relieved Anthony powell of his virgin...

2009-10-27T18:08:36.042Z

Nina Hamnett relieved Anthony powell of his virginity and was a partial model for Gypsy Jones in A Dance to the Music of Time.

An extraordinary book on Peter Warlock is Capriol for Mother by his putative son Nigel Heseltine, who claims- among other things- that Warlock's wife was not in fact his mother and that the Dutch composer Bernard van Dieren poisoned Warlock because Warlocj had made a jocular will leaving all his possessions to van Dieren.

Thanks PM. Nina and Augustus John both came from P...

2009-10-27T17:40:09.024Z

Thanks PM. Nina and Augustus John both came from Pembrokeshire which may have been a bond. When he met up with her on one occasion he declared with some degree of pride, “We are the sort of people our fathers warned us against!”. I have heard that phrase but never attributed it to AJ.

The word cloud reveals a certain interest in 'neck oil' consumption. Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder...

Nina Hamnett, I understand, was a lover of Augustu...

2009-10-27T12:12:38.505Z

Nina Hamnett, I understand, was a lover of Augustus John at one time who, apparently, put his hand in his pocket to finance Nina's pregnancy terminations more than once. She was also associated with E.J.Moeran for a while and the Eynsford set which included Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock) - as mad a hatter as the Great Beast. Copious amounts of neck oil seem to have been the common denominator...