Tim Roux's Blog – April 2009 Archive (3)

When I was a small child, getting on for fifty years ago, I used to love reading Enid Blyton’s collections of Mr. Pink-Whistle stories, one of which was called with pinpoint accuracy ‘Mr. Pink-Whistle Interferes’.



Mr. Pink-Whistle, from memory, was a smallish man with a pink face and… Continue

I kid myself that I only write from my own experience but, as my wife frequently complains, I more often write from hers.



She also complains that from the evidence of my writing I seem to have understood so much but from the evidence of my life I am almost clueless.



As they say, “It is not so much that married men make more mistakes – it is more that they find out about them quicker”.



In writing, it is the small details that bug me the most. How did anyone write… Continue

There is something lemnescatically appropriate about reviewing Mel Nicolai’s ‘The Case’ at an indefinite juncture into the story.



Did I say story?



In ‘The Case’, Mel Nicolai has done to literature what La Cirque du Soleil did to the circus. In fact, he has gone one frugality further. Not only has he removed the animals (so far, at least), but he has actually removed the story too.



I exaggerate, of course. There… Continue