It's just me riffing in a vaguely eastern, mystical, is-it-profound-is-it-bollocks? kind of way.
By The New Yorker June 1, 2009 Our sister blog, The Book Club, has posted a three-part interview with the writer Geoff Dyer, in which he politely resists unravelling the mysteries of his new novel, "Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi" — "It's just me riffing in a vaguely eastern, mystical, is-it-profound-is-it-bollocks? kind of way" — but offers a few clues for the intrepid reader.
As Ryan Lamb was lining up his conversion, his 14 colleagues were summoned to the touchline for a close encounter of the bollocking kind with Toby Booth, their head honcho.
"I'm singing this bollocks, 'what kind of fool am I...'..., and whenever we went out of sight of the cameras, they were just chasing me, trying to get hold of my old chap, to have a look!
There are amazing showbiz things you go to but as long as you can remember it's all kind of bollocks, and do a radio show to people who don't really care about that, then you're fine".
I do also think there's a whole obfuscating kind of bollocks out there as well which scratches its chin and tells you it's really serious, and I'm not interested in that, but at the same time the most inspirational book for me was Joyce's Ulysses - although it's not an easy read, it is an incredibly nourishing work.
"I think the whole three-month rule is kind of bollocks," says Darren, 22, from Kent.
The journalists gathered in a small room at the Etihad training complex expecting the kind of bollocking Sir Alex Ferguson had perfected.
'I do think Michelin stars are bollocks,' she says about the kind of cooking she doesn't do.
I drone on about pathetic fallacies and thanatoid visions – just the kind of bilious bollocks the world's greatest satirist needs to hear from a callow wanker on a sofa.
"People come up with bollocks about who's their type, they have these ideas about the kind of person they should be with based upon a set of characteristics that are really just the stories they're telling themselves".
