By Irvine Welsh
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This scintillating, aggravating, and altogether outrageous choice of tales introduces to those beaches a tender author already being known as "the Scottish Celine of the 1990s" (Guardian) and "a mad postmodern Roald Dahl" (Weekend Scotsman). utilizing a number ways from sour realism to demented delusion, Irvine Welsh is ready to evoke the fundamental humanity, good hidden because it is, of his typically wicked, lazy, manipulative, and harsh characters. He specializes rather in cosmic reversals--God turns a hapless footballer right into a fly; an acid head and a baby boy or girl trade consciousnesses with sardonically unforeseen results--always exhibiting a corrosive wit and a telling accuracy of language and aspect. Irvine Welsh is one hilariously harmful author and he's absolute to create a sensation.
Includes the subsequent stories:
"The Shooter"
"Eurotrash"
"Stoke Newington Blues"
"Vat '96"
"A smooth Touch"
"The final hotel at the Adriatic"
"Sexual catastrophe Quartet"
"Snuff"
"A Blockage within the System"
"Wayne Foster"
"Where the particles Meets the Sea"
"Granny's outdated Junk"
"The residence of John Deaf"
"Across the Hall"
"Lisa's Mum Meets the Queen Mum"
"The Philosophers"
"Disnae Matter"
"The Granton celebrity Cause"
"Snowman construction elements for Rico the Squirrel"
"Sport for All"
"The Acid House"
A clever Cunt: a novella
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After dinner I ask’d Isaiah to favour the world with his lost works, he said none of equal value was lost. Ezekiel said the same of his. 33 I also asked Isaiah what made him go naked and barefoot three years? he answer’d, the same that made our friend Diogenes the Grecian. I then asked Ezekiel, why he eat dung, & lay so long on his right & left side? he answer’d, the desire of raising other men into a perception of the infinite; this the North American tribes practise, & is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification?
Soon we saw the stable and the church, & I took him to the altar and open’d the Bible, and lo! it was a deep pit, into which I descended driving the Angel before me; soon we saw seven houses of brick; one we enter’d; in it were a number of monkeys, baboons, & all of that species, chain’d by the middle, grinning and snatching at one another, but witheld by the shortness of their chains; however I saw that they sometimes grew numerous, and then the weak were caught by the strong, and with a grinning aspect, first coupled with & then devour’d, by plucking off first one limb and then another till the body was left a helpless trunk; this after grinning & kissing it with seeming fondness they devour’d too; and here & there I saw one savourily picking the flesh off of his own tail; as the stench terribly annoy’d us both we went 39 into the mill, & I in my hand brought the skeleton of a body, which in the mill was Aristotles Analytics.
35 [Plates 16–17] The Giants who formed this world into its sensual existence and now seem to live in it in chains, are in truth, the causes of its life & the sources of all activity; but the chains are, the cunning of weak and tame minds, which have power to resist energy, according to the proverb, the weak in courage is strong in cunning. Thus one portion of being, is the Prolific, the other, the Devouring: to the devourer it seems as if the producer was in his chains, but it is not so; he only takes portions of existence and fancies that the whole.