Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry

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At age 28, he meets the love of his life, and the two of them are perfectly happy (“well, this is fiction, is it not?

A 2001 edition with a foreword by John Lanchester was published by Pan Macmillan ( Picador (imprint)).His «credit-rate» starts from simple acts of vandalism, and escalate to a magnificent, misanthropic plan. I’d never really heard of Johnson before, but this reissue of the last novel to be published in his lifetime comes with an informative introduction by John Lanchester.

Christie Malrys doppelte Buchführung zum Zweiten –- in der Hoffnung, dass diesmal auch die Leser mitziehen.There are now valuable margins and saleable insights, depressingly, within each of these most human moments. It sounds quite dull when summarised, but is funny and mordant, and very very aware of its artificiality.

To the extent that this is a caution against tolerating injustice in the hope of heavenly justice and redemption, it is the equivalent of the existentialist messages (for they are different) of Camus and Sartre, only it’s delivered in an almost offhand, wry, humorous way. Not knowing who the true perpetrator is, the British government blames Iraq for his activities and begins to escalate military action in retaliation.Are we, therefore, arriving at the answer as to why I wrote this article about a small book from the 70s? I hadn’t thought of “The Diceman” in years, but there was a brief time when I found it profoundly affecting. But as time continues, the sources of Christie’s debits widen, growing progressively larger and larger. Even if we understand that all is chaos, the understanding itself represents a denial of chaos, and must therefore be an illusion.