My Garfunkel Library

My sticky notes from Dom Joly's The Hezbollah Hiking Club: On foreboding: "Jacky, why is it called the valley of the skulls?"

From Alice Through the Looking Glass Let's pretend the glass has got all soft like gauze, so that we can get through.

My sticky notes from Jon Ronson's The Castle: On ChatGPT: Millions were falling for the machine's obsequiousness.

My sticky notes from The West Pier, part of Patrick Hamilton's Gorse Trilogy: On opportunity: All Ryan wanted to do was escape at the earliest possible moment -- to run for his life, in fact -- and here was the chance.

A sticky note from The Umbrella Man and Other Stories: What We Talk About When We Talk About the JFK Assassination, by Martin Fitzgerald: talking to witnesses is as close as I'll get to being there and if they can't agree on the basic facts, then what's t…

My sticky notes from Journal of a Disappointed Man, by WNP Barbellion: From HG Wells' introduction: Your egoist, like the solitary beasts, lives only for himself; your altruist declares that he lives only for others; for either there may be success or fai…

Since the last set ran out, here are the page markers I currently use: I can't believe I'm saying this but they're from the middle of Lidl.

My sticky notes from Black Bag, by Luke Kennard: A boy in a girl's bathroom: Her soap appears to have been carved raw out of the side of a cliff; shampoo and conditioner in two enormous apothecary bottles I cannot imagine transporting for refills.

From Haruki Murakami Goes to Meet Hayao Kawai (1996) The thing about the Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is that even I don't have a clue what it all means.

My sticky notes from The Day the World Stops Shopping, by J.