There's also Russell Hoban's +Riddley Walker+, which like +Feersum Endjinn+
creates a new/s[ecia;.particular language.
The Red Rover.
> Though to be exact, Peter, he couldn't have been troping Ronald Searle,
> the illustrator, only Geoffrey Willans, the author of masterpieces like
> *Down with Skool*. Must say I'm very tempted to read *Feersum Endjinn*
now.
> mj
>
> Peter Cudmore wrote:
>
> >I refer you to my review of Feersum Endjinn in Chapman 82, in which I ask
> >whether Banks is troping Tom Leonard or Ronald Searle.
> >
>
> --
> M.J.Walker - no webpage, no blogspot, no idea
>
> >nobody dies, 'nothing happens', we call it music,
> it is time rushing past the shabby portals of our ear
>
> and I am just a terrible mistake.<
>
> Robert Kelly
>
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