skip to main | skip to sidebar

All Manner of Enquiry

Blogging about subjects of interest, whatever they may be.

Wednesday, 15 June 2016

Skinny like what #2

"skinny like a sorghum stalk"

The Vegetarian, Han Kang

Posted by @CLANicholson at 14:23

Email This BlogThis!Share to X Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest

Labels: Han Kang, skinnylike

No comments:

Post a Comment

Newer Post Older Post Home

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Follow

Paypal

Highlights

Some of my personal favourites:

Time and money
The freedom of the city
Sartre, Bladerunner
Modern dating, Giulia
Hungover thinking

Labels

1984 (1) A Few Good Men (1) A Scanner Darkly (1) A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian (1) AA Gill (1) Aaron Sorkin (1) adolescence (1) Afghanistan (1) Afrofuturism (1) aggression (1) Agota Kristof (1) Aida Silvestri (1) Aims (7) alcohol (4) Alien (1) Alien Resurrection (1) America (1) Andreas Gursky (1) Andrew Hankinson (1) anxiety (3) aphorisms (1) Appalling things (1) Architecture (1) Art (24) autobiography (1) Avant Garde (1) bah humbug! (1) beauty (1) Ben Hickey (1) Best reads (4) Big Ones (1) Biggie (1) Bildung (1) Bing! (1) Blackhat (1) Bladerunner (1) Blogging (3) Books (53) booze (1) Brain (2) Brexit (12) Bridges (1) Britain (1) Bucket list (3) bullshit (1) Business (1) Calibration (1) Capitalism (1) cartoons (1) CB Editions (1) Charlie Stross (1) Chilcot (1) Christmas (1) Christopher Lasch (2) cities (2) climate change (1) Collateral (1) Colour (2) communications (1) Community (1) consumerism (2) conversation (1) coping (1) Corporatisation (1) creativity (4) criticism (5) culture (17) curation (1) Curationism (1) Customer service (1) Dancing (1) Daniel Kahneman (1) Data (1) Data visualisation (1) Dating (1) David Allen Green (1) David Balzer (1) David Bellos (1) David Hockney (1) David Hume (1) David Salle (1) Death (1) Debt (2) Democracy (6) Dennis Hopper (1) Dennis Keeley (1) Design (3) devilry (1) disease (1) Disgust (1) Domination (1) Don McCullin (1) Donald Trump (2) Douglas Coupland (1) drones (1) drugs (2) Dublin (1) economics (2) Elena Ferrante (1) Ellius Grace (1) emissions (1) empathy (1) essays (1) Europe (5) European Identity (3) evolution (1) existence (1) experience (1) Fabric (2) Fashion (1) fate (1) Film (4) films (1) First-world problems (2) fixation (1) Flaked (1) food (2) Foreign Office (1) France (1) Frankie Boyle (1) Free Word Centre (1) Freedom (1) Frustration (1) Gaika (1) Galapagos (1) Gary Oldman (1) Gass (1) Generation X (1) genetics (1) Genius (1) Gentrification (1) George Monbiot (1) George Orwell (1) Germany (2) Ghostface Killah (1) gigs (1) Gilbert Adair (1) global warming (2) globalisation (1) God (1) Goethe (1) Google (2) Gothic (1) government (2) gratitude (1) Greatness (1) grime (1) guilt (1) Guy Verhofstadt (1) Halsey (1) Han Kang (1) Hangovers (2) happiness (1) health (1) Heat (1) Heights (1) Hemingway (1) Herzog and De Meuron (1) hip hop (2) History (2) hobbies (1) HR Giger (1) Huck Magazine (1) human rights (1) Humankind (1) Humour (1) hungover (1) Iain Duncan Smith (1) ick (1) identity (1) Ideologies (8) If I could code I'd (3) Industry (1) inspiration (1) Intellectuals (1) intensity (1) International relations (2) Internet (3) Iraq (1) Islington Council (1) Jack Reacher (1) James Wolcott (1) Janan Ganesh (2) Janet Malcolm (1) Jay Rayner (1) Jenny Jones (1) Jim Dodge (1) Jim Thompson (1) Jim'll Paint It (1) jobs (1) Jocelyn Allen (1) John Banville (1) John Wick (1) Johnny Mercer MP (1) Journalism (8) Juxtaposition (3) Kafka (1) Kiki Streitberger (1) Kurt Cobain (1) Laura Dunne (1) Lee Child (1) Leon (1) Leonardo Da Vinci (1) liberalism (3) Life (30) Life advice (14) linguistics (1) Literature (3) London (17) London Review of Books (1) magazines (1) Malaysia (1) Malaysian government (1) Mall Galleries (1) Manus De Brun (1) Marina Hyde (1) Marina Lewycka (1) Marine Iguanas (1) Mario Draghi (1) Mark Thomas (1) Martin Wolf (1) Marvin Mudrick (1) Meat (1) Media (3) Megan McArdle (1) mental health (1) Miami Vice (1) Michael Mann (1) migration (1) Millennials (3) Ministry of Defence (1) Mirzoeff (1) Modern Art (1) Modern Art Gallery (1) Modernity (6) Mondrian (1) money (2) Morals (1) Music (6) Musings (3) myth (1) Narcissism (1) Nas (1) Nate Silver (1) National College of Art and Design (1) National Gallery (1) Nationalism (1) Netflix (2) Neuroscience (3) Nietzsche (1) Nightlife (1) nightmare (1) Nirvana (1) Norms (1) NYT (2) obsession (1) pain (1) Painting (1) palliative care (1) Pan Daijing (1) Parliament (1) Patrick White (1) Peter Oborne (1) Peter Watson (1) Philip K Dick (1) Philip Larkin (2) Philosophy (7) Photographers' Gallery (1) photography (4) Pillow Fight Day (1) Pinterest (1) planning (1) plants (1) politics (18) Politics. Control (1) pollution (1) potential (1) Primo Levi (3) Priorities (1) Privatisation (1) Procrastination (1) progressive (2) protectionism (2) protest (1) psychogeography (1) Publishing (4) publishing. ideas (1) Punk (1) Quotes (11) Rachel Howard (1) rapture (1) reading (1) Reasoning (1) referendums (1) Refugees (1) regret this later (1) Relationships (1) religion (3) research (1) review (1) Richard Skinner (1) Roland Barthes (1) Romance (1) Ron Arad (1) Ron Nagle (1) Room 101 (1) Roundhouse (1) Ryan Heath (1) Sam Savage (1) Sapiens (1) Sartre (1) Saul Bellow (2) Sci-Fi (1) Science (6) Scrutiny (1) Sculpture (1) Search engines (1) semantics (1) semiology (1) Short stories (1) Sin (1) skinnylike (2) Slavoj Zizek (1) Sleigh Bells (1) snapping (2) Society (3) sovereignty (3) Space Probe Alpha (1) Statistics (1) Stephen Kerr (1) Stephen King (1) Steven Pinker (1) Steven Spielberg (2) streaming (1) stress (1) Studs Terkel (1) Subconscious (1) Suicide (1) sunshine (1) Syria (1) taciturn (1) talks (1) Tea (1) tech-noir (1) technology (1) television (1) The Atlantic (2) the body (1) the environment (4) the EU (11) the EU referendum (9) The FT (2) The Grinch (1) The Hedgehog Review (1) The Idler (1) the internet (1) the mind (1) The Notebook (1) The Professional (1) the self (1) The Telegraph (1) The Tube (3) The UK (2) The Underground (2) The Worst Thing In The World (1) Theresa May (1) thinking (5) thought (2) Tiepolo (1) Tinder (1) tiredness (1) Tolstoy (2) Tom Shone (2) Tony Blair (1) Tough Mudder (1) trade (1) Translation (2) Travel (3) trees (1) trends (1) True crime (1) TV (2) Twitter (2) ugliness (1) Under Siege (1) University of Westminster (1) Urban living (3) US Air Force (1) vegetarianism (1) Vertigo (1) Violence (1) Visual Communication (2) Vocabulary (1) Voss (1) War (4) Wasps (1) welfare (1) what do people do all day? (4) Wilfred McClay (1) Will Arnett (1) Will Hutton (1) Will Self (1) Words (1) Work (3) worth (2) writing (5) Yahoo! (1) Yanis Varoufakis (1) You suck at life (1) Youtube (1) Yuval Noah Harari (3) Zagreb (1) zeitgeist (1) Zero Books (1) Zunar (1)

Blog Archive

► 2018 (8)
- ► March (2)
- ► February (3)
- ► January (3)

► 2017 (43)
- ► November (1)
- ► October (4)
- ► September (3)
- ► August (3)
- ► June (5)
- ► May (9)
- ► April (8)
- ► March (3)
- ► February (5)
- ► January (2)

▼ 2016 (41)
- ► December (3)
- ► November (3)
- ► October (3)
- ► September (5)
- ► August (2)
- ▼ June (4)
- ► May (6)
- ► April (2)
- ► March (5)
- ► February (3)
- ► January (5)

► 2015 (34)
- ► December (5)
- ► November (5)
- ► October (5)
- ► September (5)
- ► August (1)
- ► June (2)
- ► May (2)
- ► April (4)
- ► March (1)
- ► February (2)
- ► January (2)

► 2014 (11)
- ► December (2)
- ► June (1)
- ► May (1)
- ► April (4)
- ► March (3)

► 2013 (22)
- ► November (1)
- ► October (1)
- ► July (3)
- ► June (3)
- ► May (6)
- ► April (3)
- ► March (5)

► 2009 (1)
- ► November (1)

About Me

@CLANicholson: Available for commission.

View my complete profile

Stuff I like

Son of a book
The art of the novella
These violent delights
Emilybooks