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Will Self vs Richard Littlejohn
Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 7:38 pm
by Illinoisblue
Interesting and amusing debate...
Re: Will Self vs Richard Littlejohn
Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 3:07 am
by 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.
Re: Will Self vs Richard Littlejohn
Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 5:02 am
by 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.
Re: Will Self vs Richard Littlejohn
Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 9:34 am
by The Last Word
Self can grate on occasion, but he's great on this one. Littlejohn strangled by his usual old rope. Good stuff.
Re: Will Self vs Richard Littlejohn
Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 9:43 am
by 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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Re: Will Self vs Richard Littlejohn
Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 2:01 pm
by mart
Where does the intellectual elitism come in? Anybody can read Tolstoy if they choose to. He's not a particularly difficult author.
Mart
Re: Will Self vs Richard Littlejohn
Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 2:08 pm
by 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.
Re: Will Self vs Richard Littlejohn
Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 2:16 pm
by 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