Actually, that's not a Morris Traveller – the rather tasty mini-estate with the wood-framed rear section – but a standard Morris Minor, found abandoned in a quarry in mid-Wales around 1984. But why would I pass up a classy literary pun, especially one that refers to a book I have never actually read?
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Great illustration, Mike, although I had to enlarge it to see the Morris Minor. I have a very soft spot for Calvino's novel (?) as it scraped me a 2:1 in my degree for reasons too convoluted to explain. Worth reading!
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Thanks, Huw. I may give the Calvino a go -- it's on a shelf somewhere, I'm sure, but I've become allergic to post-modern tricksy writing, as well as "magic realist" fiction!
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So have I, I think, although this absolutely hit the spot at the age of . . . nineteen? . . . when all things were fresh and exciting. I'm not sure I dare re-read it. In fact I have a set of albums and books that I cannot revisit for precisely this reason, because they are so loaded with emotion and 'place'.
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Heh... Interesting. There's a blog post in there, I suspect!
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