Money (Martin Amis)

[Dave_Perkins]

I just ran across a passage in Money by Martin Amis that seemed appropriate to share on this forum. The narrator has recently allowed a woman to move in with him after a long bachelorhood, and is describing the results:

@"Martin Amis"

With a moan of effort the unloved flat slowly responds to the female presence. Heavily, and with unpractised movements, it straightens up and tries to look courtly, attentive and willing.

And with a chick on the premises you just cannot live the old life. You just cannot live it. I know: I checked. The hungover handjob athwart the unmade bed–you can’t do it. Blowing your nose into a coffee filter–there isn’t the opportunity. Peeing in the basin–they just won’t stand for it. No woman worth the name would let it happen. Women have pretty ways. Without women, life is a pub, a reptile bar at a quarter to three.

[Midnight_Son]

The Reptile Bar. I like it!

[DrCrypt]

In the King’s English, Kingsley - Martin’s father - has a rather priceless entry about his son filling an entire page of his novel with the word “fuck”. You can tell he really wants to lay into his son, but can’t quite bring himself to do it.

[metta]

Money is one of my favourite books.

Kingsley swore, and threw it across the room when ah, John Self’s chess partner shows up.

He complained about Martin’s “…awful vivid compulsiveness”.

Fuck you, Pops! Your son is a better writer :p

[John_Merva]

@DrCrypt

In the King’s English, Kingsley - Martin’s father - has a rather priceless entry about his son filling an entire page of his novel with the word “fuck”. You can tell he really wants to lay into his son, but can’t quite bring himself to do it.

One of the rare occasions he held off then!

[Woolen_Horde]

Martin Amis: Celebrated British novelist dies aged 73

[abidingdude]

This is great.

https://twitter.com/notille/status/1660381865402945538?s=20

[SamS]

73. The same age as Kingsley.