Howard Jacobson

A few selected quotes from “J: a novel” by Howard Jacobson:

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“Good debate is respectful and constructive”
An explanation
A social media ‘influencer’ asked:
The Secret Garden
from End to End
Craigroy [do you think memories are made of atoms too?]
‘The Twittering Machine’
How do you respond to this statement?
a summer of stormy showers
‘CEP calls for UK Sunshine Act’
National Suicide Prevention Strategy
‘Unlocking Power’
“Consider the perfection of the infinite unseen”
Altyre
Cothall
“Every word I think of does not seem enough”
[ W A V E R L E Y ]
Canto Two
Memory Lane
m a u s o l e u m
I could write essays [on just about anything] but I began here:
wandering and wondering
t e m p l e
Miss Christina Gib
Cut & Paste
The Gardener
unheedful of the butterfly –
‘Access Solutions’
‘Labour of omission’
April 1963
‘I am La Louve. I am Longmeadow.’
Extinction Rebellion
Barriers still exist
Protected: Dandie Dinmont
o u t l i n e s
half-tingle, half-tickle
a ‘finite though boundless’ universe
a man of leisure has estimated
“We met yesterday” said the room
possibly, something
Women get degrees 150 years late
The music from Bagpuss
Girgenti: footnotes and forget-me-nots
Discoveries at Gigenti
Mulberry tree
Canto One
nature of shapes
o u t d o o r raindrops – i n d o o r perfume
If “is” is considered by science (and arts) to represent ‘being’, then it misunderstands all that we will
A chance selection of iambic incidents.
How is he, that gentle gardener?
‘live in fragments no longer’
A room with a view
between
It cannot be ‘captured’, it can only be
‘Construct Your Own Concrete Capital’
reaching like a sweet pea
Girgenti tower
As strove this man who
50 years a gardener
Protected: Happy Birthday dear Margaret
The International Congress of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
Courage
“The Coulson effect”?
“What do we value?”
The Psychopharmacology Committee of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
A field
Scottish Design
‘An energetic and brilliant (if quirky) polymath’
“Sink or swim”
“the ghastly neon-lights of the laboratory”
“Disliked modern voodoo-psychiatry”
“elf-haunted”
a new canto
It is by living that we learn
“reintegrate into daily life”
The commercialisation and branding of a profession (5)
The commercialisation and branding of a profession (4)
The commercialisation and branding of a profession (3)
The commercialisation and branding of a profession (2)
The commercialisation and branding of a profession (1)
Iambic line
‘a tower of yellow ivory’
“Hilarity over the rot in a textbook . . .”
From Thimble Row to Girgenti
Scientists chop years off ancient yew trees
scribbled
above oor heids
pale fire
on the day of his death
d i a g n o s i s
drawn from life
Reappearing on the horizon of a new canto
Puritanical or Platinum?
‘What the world needs now’
‘The Psychology of the Medical Profession’
front-to-back and back-to-front
Psychiatry Careers in Scotland
our dear neighbour
Gently out of time
A surprise sonata
The Fibonacci Series
Test Card F
‘such an ivory-tower bunch’
a thought
Keepsake
Protected: notes between the notes
the first creatures to smile
‘They say no’
Everybody’s into
no matter what idea . . .
Admitted to a Mental Hospital: Gordon Bennett
statues
Outside Number 10
“Excessive claims by drug firms”
‘Battle for the Mind’
in every direction from
wallpaper
several screws are missing
unwritten
“Strong argument”
the fairm-toun sang
Bloody Scotland
Oor Big Braw Cosmos
Putting patients first: that is all I have tried to do
“It’s an outrage!”
‘Royal College adds voice’
Hints
I keep having to remind myself
The forgotten village
Gamification
hairt
Girgenti followed Paestum
Girgenti
she makes it kinder
Thesis 1389
the Captain died
after the Napoleonic wars
at Girgenti: I heard two girls sing
it was a beautiful summer
with a blue sky day
and summer followed
‘Took me back’ to Paestum
Introducing Girgenti
Shall Angels Wait
It stopped me
‘Dream come true’
‘you call me a weed’
My career began with the “Defeat Depression Campaign”
Trainees’ Workshop

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