#Tono-Bungay

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Protocole Quap de Wells

est le 4e texte publié par Caroline Hoctan sur D-FICTION | Herbert Georges Wells est l’inventeur de l’expression ” bombe atomique” ; son roman ” La destruction libératrice” a inspiré le physicien hongrois Leo Szilárd, qui permettra au scientifique de mettre au point la réaction en chaîne nucléaire. | Je poursuis cette enquête qui vise à mesurer l’impact du phénomène nucléaire sur l’imaginaire…

[spudlanyon]

for my purposes, the referenced texts E.M. Forster made in his book, The Aspects of the Novel.

William George Clark. Gazpacho: Or Summer Months in Spain. —. Peloponnesus: Notes of Study and Travel. —. The Works of William Shakespeare - Cambridge Edition. —. The Present Dangers of the Church of England. John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress. Walter Pater. Marius the Epicurean. Edward John Trelawny. Adventures of a Younger Son. Daniel Defoe. A Journal of the Plague Year. —. Robinson Crusoe. —. Moll Flanders. Max Beerbohm. Zuleika Dobson. Samuel Johnson. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. James Joyce. Ulysses. —. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. William Henry Hudson. Green Mansions. Herman Melville. Moby Dick. —. "Billy Budd". Elizabeth Gaskell. Cranford (followed by My Lady Ludlow, and Mr. Harrison's Confessions). Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre. —. Shirley. —. Villette. Sir Walter Scott. The Heart of Midlothian (part of the Waverley Novels). —. The Antiquary (part of the Waverley Novels). —. The Bride of Lammermoor (part of the Waverley Novels). George Meredith. The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. —. The Egoist. —. Evan Harrington. —. The Adventures of Harry Richmond. —. Beauchamp's Career. Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace. Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Brothers Karamazov. William Shakespeare. King Lear. Henry Fielding. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. —. Joseph Andrews. Henry De Vere Stacpoole. The Blue Lagoon (part of a trilogy; followed by The Garden of God and The Gates of Morning). Clayton Meeker Hamilton. Materials and Methods of Fiction. George Eliot. The Mill on the Floss. —. Adam Bede. Robert Louis Stevenson. The Master of Ballantrae. Edward Bulwer-Lytton. The Last Days of Pompeii. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations. —. Our Mutual Friend. —. Bleak House. Laurence Stern. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Virginia Woolf. To the Lighthouse. T. S. Eliot. The Sacred Wood.

One Thousand and One Nights. Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights. Charles Percy Sanger. The Structure of Wuthering Heights. Johan David Wyss. The Swiss Family Robinson. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love. Arnold Bennett. The Old Wives' Tale. Anthony Trollope. The Last Chronicle of Barset. Jane Austen. Emma. —. Mansfield Park. —. Persuasion. H. G. Wells. Tono-Bungay. —. Boon. Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary. Percy Lubbock. The Craft of Fiction. —. Roman Pictures. André Gide. The Counterfeiters. Homer. Odyssey. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native. —. The Dynasts. —. Jude the Obscure. Anton Chekhov. The Cherry Orchard. Oliver Goldsmith. The Vicar of Wakefield. David Garnett. Lady Into Fox. Alexander Pope. The Rape of the Lock. Norman Matson. Flecker's Magic. Samuel Richardson. Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded. Anatole France. Thaïs. Henry James. The Ambassadors. —. The Spoils of Poynton. —. Portrait of a Lady. —. What Maisie Knew. —. The Wings of the Dove. Jean Racine. Plays.

I. A. Richards.

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( suzie riddle on fb / lanny quarles )

Evolution Part 2.

"a breeze this evening scent of old books an ice cream truck"

--@poem_exe

"..if you want to imagine what the buildings of Belbury Poly might look like, you could do worse than peruse this fabulous set of photographs..." (via)

"Comet Fever

By one blue gleaming the sidewalk crawls with water. I listen to chatter and squeaks. Most of it’s past.

Beyond my snug embrasure except that lamp, night hides. I watch what no one watches. Sleep has taken all.

Unblinking star, I used to home only as the row of them went out. Then snuffed I as suddenly. That was awhile ago.

Suburbanite's sentinel, catching nothing night after night, not even cats: rain and wind quicken you. But I glare unchanged.

Out of a measured labor where days cycle blind I stepped to become a fiction as one leaves a car

that no longer runs by the side of the road. The pavement's sheen is twinkling. With a rush, the cataract resumes."

--Tono Bungay, Chicken Necks for The Soul (2012)

Kaya Wilkins talks about the process of using A.I. to create visuals for a song inspired by ketamine therapy.

"I am forbidden to make a living, therefore I am; my impossibility is my defiance." --Ivy Ferrari, A Series of Unfortunate Presidents (2009)

Brilliant Noise.

[grammymk]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Tono-Bungay by H. G. Wells hardcover vintage book 1935.

[noosphe-re]

We are all things that make and pass striving upon a hidden mission, out to the open sea.

H.G. Wells, Tono-Bungay

[bestreasonstowriterecordreviews]

“Franklin Bruno…the kind of very disciplined and productive guy who writes three songs before breakfast…classic pop…”


“Lou Barlow…the music is cathartic in quite the opposite of the usual way…Sebadoh/Sentridoh’s music is so introverted that it’s more like they’re having the catharsis and you’re listening in sympathy.” 


BRUNO/BARLOW cassette reviews by BOB BANNISTER


ON SITE #10 May 1991 (pages 31-32) BOB BANNISTER, Editor

Previously on Fuckin’ Record Reviews…

Bob Bannister continues to be an encyclopedic source of approachable and discerning criticism at Goodreads (and other places), where he reviews more books in a single year than the rest of us will ever hold in our hands again. 
Bob was also the guitar and songwriting kingpin in FIRE IN THE KITCHEN, conjured outré psych as TONO-BUNGAY, plays guitar in P.G. SIX and ESCAPE BY OSTRICH with former members of The SCENE IS NOW and is currently working with the indomitable ROSE THOMAS BANNISTER.

Seems there are a lot bands named Fire In The Kitchen in the world. Bob’s FITK was a NYC fixture in the late 80’s and early 90’s, a great one at that, fronted by Bob and drummer Robert Dennis, who, as partially noted above, continue to play together in the 20teens in Escape By Ostrich and The Scene Is Now, as well as others.

FIRE IN THE KITCHEN review by Gerard Cosloy from page 22 of Conflict 51 (Fall 1990): “If Fire In The Kitchen came in at the tail end of new wave, they’d be as popular as, oh, say the Rumour. If they held their breath for five years, they’d be twice as big…Oh, almost forgot, Television, MX-80 Sound, Slovenly, Hate Dogs (I hope this looks nice in a press kit).” 

FRANKLIN BRUNO! The man lives in Queens, NY and is still working his excellent craft in 2020 with The HUMAN HEARTS. 

The band’s most recent long player seems to be Another (2012), although Bruno has certainly performed more recent compositions since then. He details his daily process here (updated as of 4/2/20!)

Bruno also operates a detailed website chronicling his work since the mid-1980s.

Clearly Franklin Bruno has committed himself to many worthy endeavors during the past 35+ years, including writing one of those 33 1/3 books for Elvis Costello’s Armed Forces!

LOU BARLOW! Well, we all know Lou’s been pretty active with the resurrected Dinosaur, jr since the mid 00s, as well as a reconstituted Sebadoh. 

His stand alone website loobiecore still exists, although it’s hard to know if it’s been updated since 2004. 

But who needs stand alone sites when you got a Sebadoh Instagram?

Lou also records solo records for Joyful Noise Recordings, with lotsa swell swag there too.

Lou at bandcamp.

Some more recent and excellent Shrimper Records releases (Refrigerator, Shrimper proprietor Dennis Callaci, Simon Joyner, et al) continue to be  distributed by Grapefruit.   

It’s great to know these three men - Bannister, Bruno, and Barlow - are still around and making great contributions to our weird and freaked out world in 2020.

[indieephemera]

February 1995 issue of The Middle East Monthly, the calendar listings publication of Cambridge, MA rock club The Middle East.

While the previous post’s Middle East flyer showed the rock club moving into the desktop publishing age, this one has evolved into an actual publication, complete with articles, display ads from other local businesses and... a center spread featuring the extensive menu of the Middle East Restaurant attached to the club. Of course the articles are just another form of PR for each of the profiled bands, all playing that month. But, hey, you could have said the same about any number of “proper” music publications littering the media landscape in the mid-90s.

Again, in this calendar we’re treated to an embarrassment of riches in the form of gee-I-really-wish-I-went-to-those gigs. Among the offerings:

Feb 2nd: Gigolo Aunts / Throwing Muses — The order seems to imply that Gigolo Aunts were the headliner, and that can’t possibly be correct. Honestly, is this bill even correct? Throw in former Tribe front-woman Janet LaValley and a couple of minor local bands and... you have one mess of a lineup.

Feb 10th: Magic Hour / Strapping Fieldhands / Tono Bungay — aka the weird psych-drone freak gig. Am I talking about the bands or the audience? You guess.

Feb 11th: New Bomb Turks / Gaunt / Showcase Showdown / Fat Day — Not only were most of my fellow college radio DJs at this show, some of them were in the first two bands. Not really my music, but it’s the kind of thing now that I’d totally catch live.

Feb 16th: Blonde Redhead — While I did catch them live during their prime shoegaze phase, I really wish I could’ve seen ‘em when they were way noisier.

Feb 17th: Spectrum and Air Miami — Weird bill. Again, two acts I like, but for very different reasons. I did not go to this show, perhaps because I remained haunted by the memory of an absolutely terrible Air Miami performance the year before where bassist Bridget was terribly drunk.

Feb 28th: Sportsguitar / Azalia Snail / Syrup — This, on the other hand, is a very complementary bill. Strong local support there with Seana of Swirlies’ then-new band (Syrup, later Syrup USA). 

Finally, thank you to Groovasaurus (Feb 17th), (Shootyz Groove (Feb 18th) and Skavoovie & the Epitones (Feb 21st) for naming their bands in such a clear and obvious stay-the-hell-away-from-me manner.

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reading list - (auto)biographical fiction

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☐  AGEE, James – A Death in the Family ☐  ALAIN-FOURNIER – Le Grand Meaulnes ☐  ALVAREZ, Julia – In the Time of the Butterflies ☐  BALDWIN, James – Go Tell it on the Mountain ☐  BALLARD, J. G. – Empire of the Sun ☐  BERNHARD, Thomas – Wittgensteins Neffe ☐  BUCK, Pearl S. – Imperial Woman ☐  BUTLER, Samuel – The Way of All Flesh ☐  CAMPOBELLO, Nellie – Cartucho ☐  CÉLINE, Louis-Ferdinand – Voyage au bout de la nuit ☐  DICKENS, Charles – David Copperfield ☐  DUMAS, Alexandre (père) – La Reine Margot ☐  FITZGERALD, F. Scott – Tender is the Night ☐  FOER, Jonathan Safran – Everything Is Illuminated ☐  GARCIA MÁRQUEZ, Gabriel – El general en su laberinto ☐  GENET, Jean – Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs ☐  GEORGE, Margaret – The Memoirs of Cleopatra ☐  JENNINGS, Gary – The Journeyer ☐  JOYCE, James – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ☐  KEHLMANN, Daniel – Die Vermessung der Welt ☐  KEROUAC, Jack – On the Road ☐  KERTÉSZ, Imre – Sorstalanság ☐  KINGSLEY, Charles – Hypatia ☐  KINGSLEY, Charles – Hereward the Wake ☐  LAWRENCE, D. H. – Sons and Lovers ☐  LAWRENCE, D. H. – The Rainbow ☐  LAWRENCE, D. H. – Women in Love ☐  MAALOUF, Armin – Léon, l'Africain ☐  MAUGHAM, W. Somerset – Of Human Bondage ☐  MILLER, Henry – Tropic of Cancer ☐  MILLER, Henry – The Rosy Crucifixion ☐  MIN, Anchee – Empress Orchid ☐  MIN, Anchee – The Last Empress ☐  MIN, Anchee – Becoming Madame Mao ☐  NAHAI, Gina B. – Cry of the Peacock ☐  O'HARA, John – BUtterfield 8 ☐  PLATH, Sylvia – The Bell Jar ☐  PRESSFIELD, Steven – The Virtues of War ☐  RENAULT, Mary – Fire from Heaven ☐  RENAULT, Mary – The Persian Boy ☐  RENAULT, Mary – Funeral Games ☐  RENAULT, Mary – Praise Singer ☐  RILKE, Rainer Maria – Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge ☐  SAINT-EXUPÉRY, Antoine de – Terre des hommes ☐  SHAN, Sa – Impératrice ☐  SHAN, Sa – Alexandre et Alestria ☐  TAGORE, Rabindranath – Ghôre Baire ☐  VONNEGUT, Kurt – Timequake ☐  WELLS, H. G. – Tono-Bungay ☐  WEST, Paul – Cheops ☐  WOLFE, Thomas – Look Homeward, Angel ☐  YOSHIKAWA, Eiji – Musashi ☐  YOURCENAR, Marguerite – Mémoires d'Hadrien

[itsmassivecollectionpatrolus]

This piece puzzles me because it is hard for me not to see the anti-white propaganda pouring out of the NY Times and the Wash Post and other places, like the Atlantic magazine, as originating in some unwholesome Jewish-black alliance.  All the unhappy, angry, resentful black opinion writers on the Times and Post pages don’t arrive there by magic.  Some people really want to give them a bullhorn, and those same people obviously don’t care at all about white America.  So I think, with all respect to Mr. Derbyshire, that the depths of this phenomenon have not yet been illuminated. 

Tono Bungay

[brownwork]

Memorial Concert for Ryan Walsh

[loeilafaim]

12 mars 22

452. La revue D-Fiction accepte de publier le « Projet K ». Je viens d’achever la lecture du roman Tono-Bungay de Herbert George Wells, publié en 1909. Sans doute ne l’aurais-je jamais lu, n’avait été la citation liminaire de Darragh McKeon dans son roman Tout ce qui est solide se dissout dans l’air (poinçon 405). Il se trouve que la partie consacrée à la recherche du composé radioactif baptisé…

[spectaculardistractions]

And what is business in the lump? It is hiring land from landlords and spare money from capitalists, and employing the hungry to make enough money out of them day by day to pay the wages for their keep and bring in a profit as well. Astonishing fortunes can be made in this way by men and women with the necessary ability and decision who have the particular sort of pecuniary keenness and pertinacity that business requires. Even more staggering profits are made sometimes by accident, the business man hitting by chance on something new that the public happens to fancy. Millions are made by medicines which injure people's health instead of improving it (read Tono-Bungay), and hair restorers that leave the buyer as bald as before. Articles that nobody needs, and sham pleasure that give only fatigue and boredom at extravagant prices, are advertized and advertized until people are beglamored into thinking they cannot do without them.

George Bernard Shaw, The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism

[kawaiiers]

Tono-Bungay by H. G. Wells

[spookwarfare]

H. G. Wells wrote a novel called Tono-Bungay and we just let him do it

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THACKERAY, William M.

British novelist and journalist (1811-1863)

Until the success of Vanity Fair, when he was 36, Thackeray earned his living as a journalist and cartoonist (especially for Punch magazine) and as a humorous lecturer. His first intention in his novels was to write satirical biographies', letting the reader discover the follies of the world at the same time as his naive young heroes and heroines. But the characters took over, and his books now seem more genial and affectionate than barbed. He invented characters as grotesque as Dickens, caricatures of human viciousness or folly, but he wrote of them with a kind of disapproving sympathy, a fellowfeeling for their humanity, which Dickens lacks. Humbug, ambition and the seven deadly sins are Thackeray's subjects -- and so are friendship, kindness and warm-heartedness. At a time when many English novels were more like sermons, clamorous for reform, he wrote moral comedies, showing us what fools we are.

VANITY FAIR  (1847) The book interweaves the lives of two friends, gentle Amelia and calculating, brilliant Becky Sharp. Becky is an impoverished orphan determined to make her fortune; Amelia believes in love, marriage and family life. Each of them marries; Amelia's husband has an affair with Becky, and dies at Waterloo with her name on his lips; Becky's husband finds her entertaining a rich, elderly admirer and abandons her. In the end, each girl gets what she longed for, but not in the way she hoped. Amelia, after ten years pining for her dead husband, is cruelly told by Becky of his infidelity, and turns for comfort to a kind man who has worshipped her from afar, and who now offers her marriage, a home and all the comforts of obscurity. Becky's son inherits his father's money and gives her an annuity on condition that she never speaks to him again; we see her at the end of the book, queening it in Bath, an idle, rich member of the society she has always aspired to join and whose values Thackeray sums up in the title of the book.

Thackeray's other books include Pendennis (the story of a selfish young man, spoilt by his mother, who goes to London to make his fortune as a writer) and its sequel The Newcomes, Henry Esmond and its sequel The Virginians, and a number of shorter tales and stories including Barry Lyndon, The Great Hoggarty, Diamond and the spoof fairy-tale The Rose and the Ring.

READ ON

Pendennis

Jane Austen, Emma Arnold Bennett, The Card Barbara Pym, No Fond Return of Love H.G. Wells, Tono-Bungay Eudora Welty, The Ponder Heart

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“This thing just comes outta space, the space in the room, the space in yr head, the space outer, whatever...What makes this so great? Well, not only do you get the kinda heavy angle-rock...but you also get soupy lowfi electrodrone/tapeloop that makes the air inside your head quite spuzzy... and plenty of post-Ash Ra heavy psych swirl...”  

PART 2: TONO-BUNGAY review by KEVIN MOIST

DEEP WATER #2 [Issue The Second] (page 25) Autumn 1994, Mr. Bear, Editor

PART 1: bummer SLINT review by KEVIN MOIST for contrast: …these former indie-rock punks had decided to go Art, with pretty silly results, cliched angular artifice-moves that are as pointless as anything I’ve experienced…A worthless release all around.”  

Previously on Fuckin’ Record Reviews…

Bob Bannister is a featured writer here at FRR via his excellent late 80s/early 90′s zine On Site

Bob Bannister continues to be an encyclopedic source of approachable and discerning criticism at Goodreads (and other places), where he reviews more books in a single year than the rest of us will ever hold in our hands again.

As noted in the above review, Bob was also the guitar kingpin in FIRE IN THE KITCHEN, conjured outré psych as Tono-Bungay, plays guitar in P.G. SIX and ESCAPE BY OSTRICH with former members of the SCENE IS NOW and has worked with EMBER SCHRAG.

DEEP WATER #2 exhumed and forwarded to Fuckin’ Record Reviews by comrade Ground Rule Double D