M&D - I Hear Voices

[Elisabeth Romberg]

Haha, great, he could probably just stay in doing that. Didn’t have to go anywhere, did he? Amazing talent.

> 3. apr. 2015 kl. 16.21 skrev jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>:
> 
> apropos P in England, I just found this snippet at pynchon.pomona.edu <http://pynchon.pomona.edu/>:
> 
> London-based publisher of V. Tom Maschler reports, "[Pynchon]'s fantastically aware of everything around him. He has an incredible facility for picking up what's going on, in the papers, on the radio, everything. He'd been in London for three days and he seemed to know more about the city than I did." 
> 
> 2015-03-24 20:06 GMT+01:00 Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com <mailto:marrja at gmail.com>>:
> Vic & Bob - I can't aleays explain why they make me laugh, but when they're funny they're uproarious 
> 
> On Tuesday, March 24, 2015, Elisabeth Romberg <eromberg at mac.com <mailto:eromberg at mac.com>> wrote:
> Really? wow, thank you for the info. He must’ve travelled North as well:)
> In a flannel shirt? lol
> 
> > 24. mar. 2015 kl. 13.26 skrev Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com <>>:
> >
> > yes, word is he did live in England for awhile. Made some face-to-face
> > friends, including, Ian McEwan reportedly.  Supposedly researched at
> > the British Museum.
> > was at at least one dinner party in a flannel shirt. Called
> > Christopher Hitchens up once.
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 4:00 AM, Elisabeth Romberg <eromberg at mac.com <>> wrote:
> >> Great post.
> >> It's hilarious innit. Me too have wondered, he must have lived in England
> >> for a bit, surely, how is it possible otherwise? How can one just research
> >> such a thing?
> >> Gazza mate, hahah. I'm adding a clip of Bob Mortimer as well just for the
> >> record and a bit more <<speak>>.
> >>
> >> Bob Mortimer's Uniquely High Arse <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh-bAW3IwhI>
> >>
> >> 24. mar. 2015 kl. 03.05 skrev Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com <>>:
> >>
> >> As an Englishman I'm impressed by how well TRP captures the distinctive
> >> regional accents of both Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon - if he didn't
> >> live in Britain for a while then he certainly intensively researched
> >> speaking patterns. I'd like to provide a couple of examples of those accents
> >> for non-British readers, so they can gain a sense of how the characters
> >> sound when they speak.
> >>
> >> Mason is from Stroud, in the rural South West of England. The most famous
> >> resident of Stroud I can think of is Jack Russell, an English cricketer and
> >> a man of myriad eccentricities (no wonder TRP was drawn to the game in ATD).
> >> Don't try to keep up with the sporting jargon, but Russell's gentle burr is
> >> typical of Mason's Gloucestershire accent:
> >>
> >> Jack Russell WicketKeeping Masterclass Part 1 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_6XI0r3-EQ>
> >>
> >> Jeremiah Dixon is from the diametric opposite corner of England, Durham.
> >> Apologies for another sporting clip, especially as I sent this one out
> >> before (at the start of the group read) but if you want to familiarise
> >> yourself with Dixon's Geordie accent, look no further than Gazza
> >>
> >> Paul 'Gazza' Gascoigne <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwNAZFHHirg>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> 
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