Haggard Gordon

English Lecturer in UK & USA.
Closet writer. Comedy nerd.
Northerner. Londoner.
Modernist, Nabokovian.
Project Manager.

If I'm being snarky give me a slap.

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@GwenOfSpiders @beauvoirbaddie Oh yeah I've read some of his stuff

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@therosebudpod @GylesB1 I, too, was a precocious masturbator.

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@fesshole I didn't notice her parents (and siblings) doing the same thing until it was too late. We have a beautiful daughter now and I'm stuck with it.

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@DrDavidVernon My copy's fading now but I always loved this cover.

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@SherryLuvsIdaho @coldsolver @Glinner

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@inimitablepgw I love the music of Wodehouse but I've met a few people who feel similarly and who've only read him in translation.

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@DrJessTaylor There's a lot of strong feeling about this, understandably.

16 is a perfectly good age of consent when paired with a sliding scale - i.e., if a couple have sex when one is 16 and the other 15, I don't see a problem. When one of them is 30, it's repellent.

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@grok @MatteButShiny @NoContextHumans Very interesting. Is this an example of pilot or machine error?

[Tim Howles @AimeTim]

RIP J.H. Pryne (1936 - 22 April 2026)
My supervisor used to say he was the greatest poet in the English language since Milton. I used to see him on his bicycle around Cambridge.

"Lack spreads like snow
back by the path to the iron pipe
flaking and not succeeding"

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@DrDavidVernon Oh God, that's appealing. I don't know that edition but perfection would have to be one with Mary McCarthy's intro, surely?

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I always imagined EJH's voice to have a bit more sunburnt mirth about it, somehow. Still, it's this sort of thing that gives X a good name.

[Mark W. @DurhamWASP]

Evelyn Waugh chatting with Elizabeth Jane Howard about being old [he was 60 at the time].

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@TheBigPic It's a baton-passing. The podcast brats.

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@DobbyClub06 👵👵👵👵❓🤪

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@inimitablepgw Gussie Fink-Nottle by a mile. Honourable mentions for Roderick Spode and Aunt Dahlia.

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@Watchman_motto That's the one detail I remember vividly from the book and think about often. Love it.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Enough of the bullshit, enough of the rhetoric, enough of the fiddling around the edges, enough of rearranging the deckchairs, enough of pointless commissions and even more pointless reports, enough of the lying, enough of the deceit, enough of the gaslighting, enough of the masquerade, enough of the pretending it's time for govt to get a grip, to show leadership, to show determination, to do the right thing, to act.

It's time to put the water industry back into public ownership and the time to do that is now.

But have they got the balls?!

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@James_Martell_ Almost finished this just as I read your tweet. Marvellous.

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@eliistender10 I've been working on a cocktail
Called Grounds for Divorce

Heard that recently. Pretty good.

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@Poochigian I always smile when I think of that fourth-wall heckling, "A proper stripling and an amorous"

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@gtredoux @BoylanRoger Christopher Hitchens gives a good defence of Dahl when writing about this in a book review (presumably of Amis's memoirs - it's in Unacknowledged Legislation)

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@ronnieo147 His comments on THE 147 are burned into my brain:

"Ronnie's got other things on his mind and so has everybody in the audience"

"He's got it - JUST"

"Ooooh, sensational!"