TALES FROM THE UNIVERSE No 5 - This week's newsletter: LA and Dennis Wilson, timelessness, if EVERYTHING is wrong, Sri Lanka, All art baby, an exclusive poem, Lord Bertrand Russell The Third, more...

An arcadia of imagination

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Welcome (and find here nearly 7,000 stories by me, dating back to 2002, for The Guardian and Observer)

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1. Part 6 of BECAUSE THEY CAN PLAY F’CKING GOOD FOOTBALL is coming:

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On Wednesday the next installment of my new Erik ten Hag book is published - as usual a sample of this is readable for free, the rest for subscribers at £4.99 a-month, the story coming in weekly chapters.

In part 6…

‘the ongoing case of Mason Greenwood’

‘auguries of seasons’

‘the boys from Catalonia are downed’

And copious other intrigue in the tale of Ten Hag’s first term as Manchester United manager.

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2. Tune

When you’re in LA:::

do this…

pic: Paul Hirst

and listen to this…

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3. It is all art, baby

meadowing/the sound of a quiet storm

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4. Poem: how did kid paradise get famous???

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how did kid paradise get famous???

he wanted the life of
wine and olives of
sun drenched 

morns, existence oozing
grapes twisting on vines
tavernas and sweet music

a yarn never to be departed
bread fresh in the morn and
memories to balm him;

so
he
went

and 
lived 
it

5. Rumination

think about it: what if EVERYTHING believed is wrong??? or even, you know, a little bit of it…

and:

in southern France somewhere, summer 2001, i sat with a Swiss girl on the stone steps of a castle and saw the rest of the tourists dotted around as if gazing into a mirage; all of this ongoing forever - before, after, now… back and forth, an endless reel; still occurring this moment, 22 years on…

and

later that summer she broke up with me.

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6. Man City wares:

Ederson is the ONE player Pep Guardiola never drops - but do not be surprised if this happens some time.

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7. Man Utd wares:

At time of writing (and after Utd just lost 2-0 at Newcastle) the below is the vote on Wout Weghorst’s worth… And, catch it LIVE here: