User talk:Bluenote78

Bluenote78: I knew Monahan carried on around Northampton but I figured only briefly in Gloucester. I know in his article "Whale's Jaw" (about a beached whale in Gloucester who's jaw is sawed off by locals) he talks of living in an attic there? But I don't know him, and just read his stuff. Light House: A Trifle was pretty awesome. I read it for what it is, but I now see that there are a lot of references here and there to other lit: the character George Briscoe is a play on Lily Briscoe from Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and Mr Glowery is a play on Mr Glowry from Thomas Love Peacock's Nightmare Abbey. Thematic, structural similarities to these novels too. Out of interest, what are some of the parts that are based on his time in Gloucester?-Manhattan Samurai (talk) 01:45, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, should be a lot of good film coming from him over the next few years. Speaking of the indignant Monahan, have you read the adventures of Claude La Badarian? These stories are great, and I can't wait till more people read them and start commenting on them. The prose is a class above Light House but of course he wrote them on the fly, and a decade after his novel. His journalism is similarly precious. Anyways, I wonder if he wants that stuff to recede into the background to give him a clean slate to re-invent himself as a screenwriter. Though, that's unlikely to happen.-Manhattan Samurai (talk) 03:08, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Hey, check this out: Dining Late with Claude La Badarian by William Monahan. It's as good as The Departed.-Manhattan Samurai (talk) 10:20, 23 June 2008 (UTC)