The Times is amused that Martin Amis is pulling down 80,000 quid for an annual workload of 28 hours as professor of creative writing at Manchester University. (Although, as a sometime college chum of mine once mused: "What exactly is creative writing? Is there such a thing as destructive writing?")
I'm more perturbed by the fact that Amis fils appears to be turning into...
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Amis should be so lucky as to be deemed as talented as Van Morrison
You're right, the resemblance is uncanny.
Well, you must be easily disturbed. ANyway, it's not a workload of 28 hours, it's 28 hours of lecturing, which, with travel and preparation, implies well over 100 hours of work.
And to think he was considered quite good-looking in his youth...
(Malcolm Bradbury was at the end of his career at UEA when I was there - there was a running joke that he used to hide in cupboards and under desks when he saw students or anybody else who expected some work out of him. In 4 years I never saw him on campus. Superstar lecturers, eh...)
Uncanny. I wish I knew some good Van/Amis puns.
Pisces: But I wonder which one is shorter.
Only in semi-darkness, Red.
So only 800 quid an hour, Ronnie. Bargain.
Lots of academics hide in cupboards, Annie. But that's because they're mental.
You will, Billy, you will.
I think he's got his eye on a knighthood. Dad didn't say no.
yes, but is he as friendly and personable as van? ahem.
Mart will only be satisfied with a Nobel, Dick.
Yes he is, FN. That's the tragedy.
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