For me (long-time lurker, relatively recent subscriber) there's one line in everything you publish that makes me catch my breath - on this occasion '...but for you, wanting to live, it's just a row of shuttered stores'. Facing the prospect of retreating from a failed European adventure to the collapsing UK in my 58th year it felt like a hand on my shoulder (lord preserve us from Morrissey quotes). Ahh, the parasocial thrill of it all...
Actually all I wanted/needed to say was thanks, Huw - with love and admiration from the white wastes of Stockholm x.
Thank you Paul. As you might have noticed from the town I’m a little down on things recently and this comment might have been the thing I needed to pep me up
It had seemed you were a little out of sorts - and the disappearance of "JFK II" from the archive made me wonder. I'm flattered to be a source of pep (sidestepping the so-English reflex reaction of 'what a charmer'). Call it the smallest crumb of payback, since I (and I'm sure many others) have long valued your writing (alongside your collaborations with Ben and also Conner Habib's work) for its warmth and generosity of spirit in a world that seems ever more gleeful in its cruelty and ignorance.
For me (long-time lurker, relatively recent subscriber) there's one line in everything you publish that makes me catch my breath - on this occasion '...but for you, wanting to live, it's just a row of shuttered stores'. Facing the prospect of retreating from a failed European adventure to the collapsing UK in my 58th year it felt like a hand on my shoulder (lord preserve us from Morrissey quotes). Ahh, the parasocial thrill of it all...
Actually all I wanted/needed to say was thanks, Huw - with love and admiration from the white wastes of Stockholm x.
Thank you Paul. As you might have noticed from the town I’m a little down on things recently and this comment might have been the thing I needed to pep me up
It had seemed you were a little out of sorts - and the disappearance of "JFK II" from the archive made me wonder. I'm flattered to be a source of pep (sidestepping the so-English reflex reaction of 'what a charmer'). Call it the smallest crumb of payback, since I (and I'm sure many others) have long valued your writing (alongside your collaborations with Ben and also Conner Habib's work) for its warmth and generosity of spirit in a world that seems ever more gleeful in its cruelty and ignorance.