Will Self

Will Self (born 1961) is an English novelist, reviewer and columnist who was educated at Exeter College, Oxford. Will Self is known for his satirical, grotesque and fantastic novels and short stories set in seemingly parallel universes. These include Cock and Bull (1992) — the stories of a man and a woman who develop sexual organs of the opposite sex. My Idea of Fun (1996) — a lonely boy grows up just outside Brighton in a caravan park with his over-sexual mother and Samual Northcliff who takes ...

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Photographic memory, eidetic memory, or total recall, is the ability to recall images, sounds, or objects in memory with great accuracy and in seemingly unlimited volume. It is said that many famous artists and composers, like Claude Monet and Mozart, possibly had eidetic memory. Eidetic memory - Controversy. Dr. Marvin Minsky, in his book The Society of Mind, claims to have been unable to verify claims of eidetic memory (see sections 15.3 & 15.6) and considers reports of eid ...

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• Eidetic memory - Controversy
• Eidetic memory - Real People With Possible Eidetic Memory
• Eidetic memory - Eidetic memory in fiction

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In 1983, Granta (issue #7) published a list of 20 young British novelists as names to watch out for in the future. Since then, the magazine has repeated the exercise in 1993 (issue #43) and in 2003 (issue #81). In 1996 (issue #54), Granta also published a similar list of promising young American novelists. Granta - The 1983 list. Martin Amis William Boyd Maggie Gee Kazuo Ishiguro Adam Mars-Jones Salman Rushdie Julian Barnes Ursula Bentley ...

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Granta, Granta - History, Granta - Rebirth, Granta - Ownership, Granta - Granta Best of Young British Novelists, Granta - The 1983 list, Granta - The 1993 list, Granta - The 2003 list, Granta - The 1996 list of American Novelists, Granta - Recent contributors, Granta - External link

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London in fiction - Prewar fiction. P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster novels (1919 onwards). Wooster lives mainly in London, and is a member of the Drones Club. Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway (1925) T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land makes frequent reference to the Unreal City. Chesterton's allegorical works The Man Who Was Thursday and The Napoleon of Notting Hill both feature surreal depictions of London. Pamela L. Travers' Mary Poppins (1 ...

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London in fiction, London in fiction - Early Fiction, London in fiction - 19th Century fiction, London in fiction - 20th Century fiction, London in fiction - Prewar fiction, London in fiction - Postwar Fiction, London in fiction - 21st-Century Fiction, London in fiction - Nursery rhymes

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HIGNFY began on BBC Two on September 28, 1990 and transferred to BBC One in October 2000. Two series of around eight episodes are made each year. Over an hour's worth of the show is recorded for each 30-minute programme on Thursday evenings for broadcast on Friday, allowing the show to remain topical, while the BBC's lawyers have time to request cuts of potentially libellous material. The regulars have commented that if a guest says anything funny, it is usual ...

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Have I Got News For You, Have I Got News For You - Format, Have I Got News For You - Choice moments, Have I Got News For You - Running gags, Have I Got News For You - Controversy and litigation, Have I Got News For You - DVD, Have I Got News For You - Appearances and guest presenters, Have I Got News For You - Most appearances in total, Have I Got News For You - Guest presenters, Have I Got News For You - TV shows elsewhere based on the HIGNFY format

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The number of each chapter of The Picture of Dorian Gray in which an individual is referred to is given in parentheses alongside their name. These chapter numbers are specific to the revised edition of the novel first published in April 1891. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Fictitious created by Oscar Wilde. 71 Fictional characters, referred to by name in the novel, are creations of Oscar Wilde. These ...

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The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Picture of Dorian Gray - Plot summary, The Picture of Dorian Gray - Themes, The Picture of Dorian Gray - Publication history, The Picture of Dorian Gray - Individuals referred to in the novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray - Fictitious created by Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray - Fictitious other, The Picture of Dorian Gray - Real/historical, The Picture of Dorian Gray - Creative works referred to in the novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray - Fictitious, The Picture of Dorian Gray - Real/historical, The Picture of Dorian Gray - News publications/periodicals referred to in the novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray - Film/television, The Picture of Dorian Gray - Adaptations of the novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray - Other references to the novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray - Other references

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His best-known novels, and the ones most respected by critics, are Money, London Fields, and Time's Arrow. Time's Arrow, the autobiography of a doctor who helped torture Jews during the Holocaust, which was shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize, drew notice both for its unusual technique — time runs backwards during the entire novel, down to the actual dialogue being sp ...

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Martin Amis, Martin Amis - Early life, Martin Amis - Early writing, Martin Amis - Later career, Martin Amis - Bibliography, Martin Amis - Novels, Martin Amis - Collections, Martin Amis - Non fiction

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Although primarily a newspaper journalist, Littlejohn has presented numerous radio and TV shows, and has authored or co-authored several books. Richard Littlejohn - Journalism. Littlejohn left school in 1971 aged 16, and started work as a trainee journalist in his home town of Peterborough; he worked for several local newspapers during the early 1970s. In the mid-1970s, he joined the Birmingham Evening Express ...

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Richard Littlejohn, Richard Littlejohn - Career, Richard Littlejohn - Journalism, Richard Littlejohn - Radio, Richard Littlejohn - Television, Richard Littlejohn - Books, Richard Littlejohn - Opinions, Richard Littlejohn - Controversy and criticism, Richard Littlejohn - LBC radio programme, Richard Littlejohn - The Michael Winner incident, Richard Littlejohn - The Will Self incident, Richard Littlejohn - Attitudes to homosexuality, Richard Littlejohn - Johann Hari, Richard Littlejohn - Viz Magazine

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T. S. Eliot - Early life and education. Eliot was born on the 26th of September 1888 into a prominent family from St. Louis, Missouri. His father, Henry Ware Eliot (1843–1919), was a successful businessman, president and treasurer of the Hydraulic-Press Brick Company in St. Louis. His mother, née Charlotte Champe Stearns (1843-1929), taught school prior to marriage, and wrote poetry. He was their last child; his parents were 44 years old when he was born. His four surviving sisters were about eleven to nineteen years older than ...

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T. S. Eliot, T. S. Eliot - Life, T. S. Eliot - Early life and education, T. S. Eliot - Later life in Britain, T. S. Eliot - Literary career, T. S. Eliot - Poetry, T. S. Eliot - Other works, T. S. Eliot - Preoccupations of his Poetry, T. S. Eliot - Criticism, T. S. Eliot - Prejudice?, T. S. Eliot - Recognition, T. S. Eliot - Bibliography, T. S. Eliot - Poetry, T. S. Eliot - Plays, T. S. Eliot - Nonfiction, T. S. Eliot - Notes

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The basic format of the show is that of a conventional panel game. The hosts (Reeves and Mortimer) and the two teams of three sit behind desks. The hosts ask questions of the two teams, and points are awarded for "correct" answers. As is common with panel games, the scoring is largely arbitrary and simply a device to give a structure to the proceedings. Reeves will almost always perform a "leg rub" in front of a beautiful female guest seated directly to his ...

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Shooting Stars, Shooting Stars - Format, Shooting Stars - Participants, Shooting Stars - Questions, Shooting Stars - The final game, Shooting Stars - Alternative versions

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List of British Jews - MPs. British Members of Parliament listed chronologically by first election date (in brackets): Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1837) [1], Conservative Prime Minister (family converted to Anglicanism) Lionel de Rothschild (1847, admitted 1858) [2], Liberal MP, first openly Jewish MP Sir Francis Henry Goldsmid (1860) [3], MP for Reading, first Jewish barrister Frederick David Goldsmid (1865) [4], MP for Honiton Sir Julian G ...

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The Independent - Creation in 1986. The Independent is the youngest British broadsheet newspaper still in existence, first published in October 1986. Despite no longer published in broadsheet format, the other connotations of the term still apply. It was produced by Newspaper Publishing Ltd. and created by Andreas Whittam Smith, Stephen Glover and Matthew Symonds. All three were former journalists at The Daily Telegraph who had fled the regime of Lord Hartwell. Marcus Sieff became the first chairman of Newspaper Publishing a ...

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The Independent, The Independent - History, The Independent - Creation in 1986, The Independent - Financial problems, The Independent - Change from broadsheet to tabloid size, The Independent - Politics and readers, The Independent - Writers and columnists

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His first period as party leader—between the 1983 and 1987 elections—was dominated by his struggle with the hard left. Although Kinnock had come from the left of the party he parted company with many of his previous allies on his appointment to the shadow cabinet. In 1981 Kinnock was alleged to have effectively scuppered Tony Benn's attempt to replace Denis Healey as Labour's deputy leader by first supporting the candidacy of the more traditionalist Tribunite John Silkin and then urging ...

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Neil Kinnock, Neil Kinnock - Career Overview, Neil Kinnock - Becomes Labour Party Leader, Neil Kinnock - Later Years as Party Leader, Neil Kinnock - European Union Commissioner, Neil Kinnock - Life peerage, Neil Kinnock - Personal Life, Neil Kinnock - Biography

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Situated in the north of London, Finchley is divided into four: East Finchley, roughly speaking, the area between Highgate and the North Circular Road, and in postal area N2; Church End Finchley, often known as "Finchley Central", the area west of the North Circular Road, centred around Ballards Lane and Finchley Central tube station, and in postal area N3; West Finchley, the area around West Finchley tube station, and in postal area N12; and North Finchley, the area surrounding Tally-Ho Corner, stretching west to Woodside Park a ...

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Finchley, Finchley - Location & divisions, Finchley - Culture & sports, Finchley - History, Finchley - Famous People, Finchley - Fictional Characters, Finchley - Nearest Places:

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Dr. Marvin Minsky, in his book The Society of Mind, claims to have been unable to verify claims of eidetic memory (see sections 15.3 & 15.6) and considers reports of eidetic memory to be an "unfounded myth". Support for the belief that eidetic memory could be a myth was supplied by the psychologist Adriaan de Groot, who conducted an experiment into the ability of chess Grandmasters to memorise complex positions of chess pieces on a chess board. Initially it was found that these experts could recall surprising amounts of inf ...

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Eidetic memory, Eidetic memory - Controversy, Eidetic memory - People Who Possess or May Have Possessed Eidetic Memory, Eidetic memory - Eidetic memory in fiction

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Gray was born in Riddrie, east Glasgow. His father had been wounded in the First World War and worked at the time in a factory, while his mother worked in a shop. During the Second World War, Gray was evacuated to Perthshire and then Lanarkshire, experiences which he drew on in his later fiction. The family lived on a council estate, and Gray received his education from a combination of state education, public libraries and public service broadcasting: "the kind of education British governments now consider useless, especially for British wo ...

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Alasdair Gray, Alasdair Gray - Life, Alasdair Gray - Quotes, Alasdair Gray - Literary Works, Alasdair Gray - Novels, Alasdair Gray - Short stories, Alasdair Gray - Poetry, Alasdair Gray - Non-fiction, Alasdair Gray - Dramatic Works very incomplete, Alasdair Gray - Theatre

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Apes (gorillas in particular) were inexplicably popular during the Silver Age of comics, most prevalently seen on the covers of numerous DC Comics. Gorilla Grodd - villain from The Flash comic books (and other residents of Gorilla City) Ultra-Humanite - human brain that spent some time in an albino gorilla. DC Comics villain. King Solomon - a super-intelligent ape that is the sidekick of Alan Moore's Tom Strong (and numerous alternate versions seen in The Many Worlds of Tesla Strong) Mons ...

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List of fictional apes, List of fictional apes - Apes in Literature, List of fictional apes - Apes in Comic books, List of fictional apes - Movie Apes / Ape creatures, List of fictional apes - Television Apes, List of fictional apes - Animated, List of fictional apes - Live action, List of fictional apes - Stories about ape-men, List of fictional apes - Apes in Video Games

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Harold Bloom - Miscellaneous Books. (Editor) English Romantic Poetry, An Anthology, Doubleday, 1961, two-volume revised edition, Anchor, 1963. (Editor, with John Hollander) The Wind and the Rain, Doubleday, 1961. The Literary Criticism of John Ruskin, Edited and with Introduction by Harold Bloom, Anchor, 1965. (Editor, with Frederick W. Hilles) From Sensibility to Romanticism: Essays Presented to Frederick A. Pottle, Oxford University Press, 1965. ...

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Harold Bloom, Harold Bloom - Life, Harold Bloom - Bloom's Influence, Harold Bloom - Bibliography, Harold Bloom - Miscellaneous Books, Harold Bloom - Articles, Harold Bloom - Books About Harold Bloom, Harold Bloom - Awards

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Dr. Marvin Minsky, in his book The Society of Mind, claims to have been unable to verify claims of eidetic memory (see sections 15.3 & 15.6) and considers reports of eidetic memory to be an "unfounded myth". Support for the belief that eidetic memory could be a myth was supplied by the psychologist Adriaan de Groot, who conducted an experiment into the ability of chess Grandmasters to memorise complex positions of chess pieces on a chess board. Initially it was found that these experts could recall surprising amounts of inf ...

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Eidetic memory, Eidetic memory - Controversy, Eidetic memory - Real People With Possible Eidetic Memory, Eidetic memory - Eidetic memory in fiction

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Still situated in its original location, Exeter College was founded in 1314 by Walter de Stapeldon of Devon, Bishop of Exeter and later treasurer to Edward III, who intended it as a school to educate clergy. During its first century, it was known as Stapeldon Hall and was significantly smaller, with just twelve to fourteen students. The college grew significantly from the 15th century onward, and began offering rooms to its student ...

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Exeter College Oxford, Exeter College Oxford - History, Exeter College Oxford - Notable former students, Exeter College Oxford - Academics/tutors, Exeter College Oxford - In fiction

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