Will Self vs Richard Littlejohn

[Illinoisblue]

Interesting and amusing debate...

[Holden MacGroyn]

Excellent stuff.
I wish I had caughtit.

I'd say 9-1 Victory to Self.

Littlejohn and Bushell both crawled out from under the same reactionary rock.

[woodgnome]

stonevid wrote:

> Richard LittleJohn 9 points. Will self 1 point. He just came
> across as an intellectual snob...

difficult not to be when you're in conversation with a "chimp"-ion of the people like littlejohn.

[The Last Word]

Self can grate on occasion, but he's great on this one. Littlejohn strangled by his usual old rope. Good stuff.

[Holden MacGroyn]

You couldn't script it better if you tried.
Pure class.

Self can be an arse at times, but Littlejohn and all his sycophantic supporters make a daily habit out of it.







SELF: It is a 400 page... I've read 200 pages of it and that is a 200 page recruiting leaflet for the BNP.

LITTLEJOHN: Well, you can't comment until you have read the other 200.

SELF: Why? Does it suddenly turn into Tolstoy?


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LITTLEJOHN: But you haven't read the book in its totality and you have to read the book in its totality.

SELF: Why?

LITTLEJOHN: In order to understand it.

SELF: Does it turn into Tolstoy at page 205?

LITTLEJOHN: No it doesn't turn into Tolstoy. I don't set out to be Tolstoy. It is a much more complex book than that.

SELF:Than Tolstoy?



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[mart]

Where does the intellectual elitism come in? Anybody can read Tolstoy if they choose to. He's not a particularly difficult author.

Mart

[The Last Word]

And what the hell had Self's long-passed heroin problem have to do with the discussion?

Much funnier? No. Desperate? Yes.

[Buckley]

Self is a fascinating writer; Littlejohn, boring; Tolstoy tedious......War and Peace got there on weight of paper rather than weight of intellect.......But that's my opinion so I'll live with it