Howard Jacobson

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

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A letter to Dr Flaxman
Site of Core Stanes
VANDAL
Tamrawer
Volunteer gardener
BIG BRAND NAMES
Hunimundias
in other words
Coloured wrap
Choose to challenge
Only One Home
AH, UM, AH, ER
being here and now and together
A high summer garden
A new generation of gardeners
‘The New Wonder of Edinburgh’
Patrick’s garden
21 Island Street
Tuppeny Roll
Yesterday
Who owns the land?
Public Health Paper No 34.
Platform 11
Outside medicine he was a keen gardener
Ducks are a-dabbling
Your Inner Hedgehog
The making of the future
Pulverising Mill
Early Days
More of a journey than a gateway
Medal and Trophy production
Novel approach to pandemic
LIGHT #3
LIGHT #2
LIGHT #1
bird-table
Widely Based Experience [WBE]
What do you care about in this story, so far?
Inside Science
CHEMIST and DRUGGIST [heard the whisper?]
‘and danced farther and farther from home’
Secret of the Yew Tree
Edinburgh’s Orphan Hospital
ORPHAN Hospital [ Site of]
The Sparkian world
“I’m going to discover something”
“Classy”
The Lookout
WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS’
[matters still under consideration]
‘Ahead of the curve’
A. C. Milan shirts
Tak tent o’ time
Heaven at last
‘Exposing a transparency crisis’
A call for people to be civil and kind
A firebrand returns
Psychiatry in fabula
experience
Not so, the artist says:
Talking about Light
Cumberlege Review: what is the position of RCPsych?
TEMPLE [of unknown origin]
Ghoul’s Den
Quietly fostering Scottish Arts
Democracy survived for centuries without daily screaming matches
Cabrach Telephone Box
Jawbone Walk
something already in the past
The ladies Reid
MERRYTHOUGHT
Shout to the top
GORDON’S EXTRACT
PATNA within us
“Anyone for tennis”
A decade without social media was simply child’s play
Linwood no more
INSIDE science
Elizabeth and Ada [two girls singing]
NOW & THEN
The Muses claim’d him
Part of the conversation
ASTONISH
Iron gate sensitivity
GORGET OINTMENT
“Perceived”
The Jacquard loom
The idea behind this film is to question what may be considered as ‘medical literature’?
Attempts to enter the mind of the writer through the gateway
Architect recieves medal after 70 years wait
A day in the life of a young trainee architect
Stitched-in-together
Calcutta Cup 2021: The 150th Test
people would smile
My colour is black
Sensitive to social geography
‘It is said that he had 3 years’ work in his studio’
Mr BARKER: Inventor and Proprietor of the PANORAMA
Interlaced Art
BRAIN LOAN
The Wilderness
A new Co-op for Bridge of Allan
The centre was elsewhere
RSPB garden birdwatch
Psychiatry: the ‘subjective-objective divide’
A friendship in letters
More than a little!
beautifully
From glamour to dereliction and back
Saints head into Hampden final
Poetry and music together
IMAGINED SPACES
NEW RULES ARE HERE
Missing you already
‘Kick the sleepers away’
‘Digital Bullies’
d i s c o v e r e d
The OPEL is a car which fills a universal want!
Everybody wants OPEL!
We go from nowhere to nowhere, deliberately
THERE-AND-BACK-AGAIN lane
Social Media Democracy [a view]
‘The reality of editing’
I do not feel my DNA
bringing people together
Andy Gray
1938 Opel Olympia
the Carse
A friendship in letters
E L E M E N T A L
“Developers revive bid”
Frozen Lochindorb
“We cannot sell a thing”
CAMPFIRE CONVERSATIONS
When the medical profession shuts down
Tens of thousands relying on social media support groups when attempting to withdraw from antidepressants
Have you climbed a MUNRO?
Somewhere on the other side of the afternoon’s horizon
Science that no longer listens
Together we are an endless conversation
Darwin’s coffin
“Trump is finally booted off Twitter for good”
Odin’s Raven Magic
COMPETING INTERESTS
‘Speaking truth to power’
Gnarled Oaks
divisive folly
Floral corridor
Bathwell
the sun shines for all

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