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. Bascule's strange
language in FE actually has an effect that is entirely Banks' -- it slows
down the pace of narrative and obliges the reader to give his (Bascule's)
point of view more weight than the others. I think FE is a pretty formidable
achievement in several respects, by the way.
P
(Robin, you're conflating Feersum Endjinn & Use of Weapons, the latter
featuring one of Banks' most spectacularly bad -- by which I mean hugely
disappointing after what went before -- endings.)
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> Oh christ, Dom, just cracked this -- you're playing the
> spelling idiom that Iain M. Banks used in +Feershum Weapons+.
>
> Bloody hell, Glasgow SF lives ...
>
> :-(
>
> Altzeimers R Uz.
>
> ... back to the Teapot, me.
>
> Gil-Martin
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>
> But wait! who is this bursting thruogh the gates of the grate hall,
> rending noble brave ect wariors left and right with terible swooshes
> of his mitey clores? It is the monster GRENDLE chiz aka Sigismund the
> mad maths master who hav burst his chains at the ful moons lite and is
> even now roming abrord in serch of reffreshment hem hem. Who can face
> this feresome enemy? Who hav the honner, the courage, the fiting
> spirit, the mitey mussles of ripling steel (cheers, shouts of manly
> encouragement, also cries of rubbish, get on with it clot ect) to
> stand befor the rampaging feind and uterly tuough him up?
> "Peason," sa I, who am not called the gorilla of 3B for nothing.
> "Fetch me the skool crickit ball and also yore revolting rugby sock
> that hav not been washed since the start of term. For the hour is upon
> us when perchance the nesessessery hero may arise, it is a far far
> beter thing I do than I have ever done ect"
> Peason turn very pale and scutle off, for he also hav seen that
> film about who is the pater of this nick hem hem, and kno better than
> to argue with such a renowned buly as yors truly, espeshally in a
> moment of crisis my dere...
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