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Scottish author Jim Murdoch discusses writing, his own and other authors, and muses at length about his fascination with the perversity of language. Veering from the nostalgic to the acerbic his blog will amuse anyone with a love of language.

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  • Memories of Spike (part one)

    Posted on Thursday October 15th, 2009 at 05:42 in biography, spike, goons, milligan

    I've been trying to write this blog for over a year now. I kept meaning to start it but then I couldn't find my keys and then I realised just how much material I had to work with and the very thought of it made me tired. So, I'm not going to try and...

  • The next John Cleese

    Posted on Sunday March 8th, 2009 at 19:12 in biography, beckett, cleese

      I have never written anything biographical apart from an autobiography at the age of about fourteen which, although I've hung onto the thing for some thirty-five years, I've found myself unable to read past the first page. The spelling alone...