Fri 24th September 2010

We all got up late. We had breakfast and they went flat-hunting on the internet again. I did a stab at work but had to leave it and them at about 2.30 to see to my children. Later, I texted Csilla. She rang back: "We're in Yegats, Y-E-G-A-T. And the music's not so good, it is not a good style, but we've got some drinks here, so maybe you could join us." Yates's.

I joined them at a circular table in one of those pubs that makes you feel like an anthropologist. We chatted about how the women were dressed, and noted a couple of flashes of knicker triangle as dresses rode too high. "I would never never dress like this," said Csilla. "They look like whores." They were effusively grateful to me for letting them stay. In the din of the pub, them talking in a second language, it struck me properly that they've arrived in a foreign country knowing no-one, and I'm as yet their only friend in Lancaster.

Csilla wore a tight white blouse unbuttoned to just above her cleavage. Bela is just as beautiful: dark hair, and whatever the polite way is of saying "lovely tits". We danced to YMCA and Aqua, me knowing that I was with undoubtedly the two best looking, and almost certainly the two most intelligent women, in the place. I met a someonw from where I used to work, strapped into an inadequate harness of straining red viscose. I waved to her so that she could see who I was with.

We staggered arm in arm up the hill. They were very drunk, swaying and saying "No, no, I'm not very drunk." I was going to walk them home then go back to Kirsty's but they said "No no, we can go home." They both offered each cheek to me to kiss. We walked away from one another.

"When we move in to the new flat, we are going to cook you a true Hungarian meal.".

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looby, n.; pl. loobies. A lout; an awkward, stupid, clownish person

M / 61 / Bristol, "the most beautiful, interesting and distinguished city in England" -- John Betjeman [1961, source eludes me].

"Looby is a left-wing intellectual who is obsessed with a) women's clothes and b) tits." -- Joy of Bex.

WLTM literate woman, 40-65. Must have nice tits, a PhD, and an mdma factory in the shed, although the first on its own will do in the short term.

There are plenty of bastards who drink moderately. Of course, I don't consider them to be people. They are not our comrades.
Sergei Korovin, quoted in Pavel Krusanov, The Blue Book of the Alcoholic

I am here to change my life. I am here to force myself to change my life.
Chinese man I met during Freshers Week at Lancaster University, 2008

The more democratised art becomes, the more we recognise in it our own mediocrity.
James Meek

Tell me, why is it that even when we are enjoying music, for instance, or a beautiful evening, or a conversation in agreeable company, it all seems no more than a hint of some infinite felicity existing apart somewhere, rather than actual happiness – such, I mean, as we ourselves can really possess?
Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

I hate the iPod; I hate the idea that music is such a personal thing that you can just stick some earplugs in your ears and have an experience with music. Music is a social phenomenon.
Jeremy Wagner

La vie poetique has its pleasures, and readings--ideally a long way from home--are one of them. I can pretend to be George Szirtes.
George Szirtes

Using words well is a social virtue. Use 'fortuitous' once more to mean 'fortunate' and you move an English word another step towards the dustbin. If your mistake took hold, no-one who valued clarity would be able to use the word again.
John Whale

One good thing about being a Marxist is that you don't have to pretend to like work.
Terry Eagleton, What Is A Novel?, Lancaster University, 1 Feb 2010

The working man is a fucking loser.
Mick, The Golden Lion, Lancaster, 21 Mar 2011

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Not for the first time, English women compared to whores

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Rummage in my drawers

The Comfort of Strangers

"Just sit still and listen" - woman to teenage girl at Elliott Carter weekend, London 2006

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