Gilbert Adair
Gilbert Adair
Gilbert Adair was a Scottish novelist, poet, film critic and journalist. He was critically most famous for the "fiendish" translation of Georges Perec's postmodern novel A Void, in which the letter e is not used, but was more widely known for the films adapted from his novels, including Love and Death on Long Islandand The Dreamers...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth29 December 1944
taste acquired-taste
The only tastes worth having are acquired tastes.
blessed feet giving
The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of God's checks has bounced.
isms politics ends
All isms end in fascism.
cancer fact however
We ''need'' cancer because, by the very fact of its insurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.