Dan Jenks
@dantjenks.bsky.social
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Reading. Cycling. Education. https://substack.com/@dan1997690?r=4hxm6&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile
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Blackout by Yann Chateigné Tytelman a remarkable little book - a meditation on grief, silences, solitude, the solaces (or otherwise) of art.
Taking in Charles Ray’s Ink Box, Celmin’s sea pictures, David Toop, Judy Nylon along the way. It’s another fantastic work from @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social
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Croydon gets everywhere @backlisted.bsky.social - one for Andy in @andrewgallix.bsky.social novel Loren Ipsum - a playful English novel in the French tradition.
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It’s got that same dark energy that makes Peace so compulsively readable.
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Rare event. I got to race with my son today. He’s the second best all rounder in the country - I’m not in the top thousand.
A two-up fifteen mile time trial where he very efficiently almost killed me. I thoroughly enjoyed the experience.
Pic of me and my son in timetrial ski suits
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Just finished Moore’s From Hell which has very similar vibes despite a different time and place.
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Mate, when I smile my eyes disappear. I’ve got more wrinkles than a crumpled brown paper bag. As George Melly said to Jagger: “Laughter lines? Nothing’s that fucking funny!”

Happy belated birthday
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Things I didn’t expect… a Big Star fan doing the NY Connections compiling today.
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Krasznahorkai is a return to bleak difficult European winners of the Nobel.
Whilst I like him, I don’t think I’ll be encouraging many of my mates to read him.
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Afraid not. Hopefully someone on here might be.
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Excellent- looking forward to it already.
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I’ll put it in the calendar. Front row seat
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Ah well, when I commit to a thing.
I must say the annotations online were useful for some of the more obscure arcana at play
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“I’d rather have my mind expanded than my taste confirmed.”
Well, I took @iammilliam.bsky.social at his word and plunged into the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen multiverse - I’m glad I did - I didn’t love everything but it was a rich reading experience which I’d recommend
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The view on the Delta this morning
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I think Tim Burrows picked up the torch in his Invention of Essex.
And you can still find people riding beautiful Hetchins steel bikes round here.
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Right up my Highway 61. I’ll check it out.
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Before playtime let us consider the possibilities/ of getting stoned on milk.
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Where are you now, Batman?

Don’t tell me Alan Moore didn’t read this before League and Watchmen.
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Mad mangled crocodile of love
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I now remember where my copy came from.
I stole it from the school library which now I think of it is a very Little Johnny thing to do.
God,
I
Loved
That
Book.