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โ€œYou donโ€™t look like a newspaperman. You have fighter pilot eyes.โ€

โ€”Alastair McKay takes โ€œa hirple through the poetic humour of Mr Ivor Cutler, humorist, teacher, cloud-fancier, opsimathโ€

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https://alastairmckay.substack.com/p/poetry-full-stop

#Scottish #literature #poetry #humour #humor #surrealism #absurdist#IvorCutler

โ€œCutler had a lighter, quieter, sparser approach to the weird, macabre and illogical than the majority of surrealists. The darkness is transmuted into mischief and the savagery into play. There is melancholy in some of the poems, even despair, but it tends to be counterbalanced by the charm and daftness.โ€

โ€”Rhys Hughes on the sublime daftness of Ivor Cutler

4/7

https://borderlessjournal.com/2021/06/14/never-knowingly-understood-the-sublime-daftness-of-ivor-cutler/

#Scottish #literature #poetry #humour #humor #surrealism #absurdist#IvorCutler

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โ€œWe set off in a straggly line, hugging the wall to escape the worst of the effects of the fresh air โ€ฆโ€

Episode 11 of Ivor Cutlerโ€™s LIFE IN A SCOTCH SITTING ROOM, Vol. II, recorded on his 1976 LP โ€œJammy Smearsโ€

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwNcxd9Jf9I

#Scottish #literature #poetry #humour #humor #surrealism #absurdist#IvorCutler

โ€œCutler performed on the opening night of BBC Two, recorded more John Peel sessions than any other act except The Fall, played Buster Bloodvessel in The Beatlesโ€™ A Magical Mystery Tour and was, according to Peel, the first performer to appear on Radios 1, 2, 3 and 4.โ€

โ€”Bruce Lindsay answers ten questions on his biography of Ivor Cutler

3/7

https://theartsdesk.com/books/10-questions-bruce-lindsay-biographer-ivor-cutler

#Scottish #literature #poetry #humour #humor #surrealism #absurdist#IvorCutler #biography

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โ€œCutler had a lighter, quieter, sparser approach to the weird, macabre and illogical than the majority of surrealists. The darkness is transmuted into mischief and the savagery into play. There is melancholy in some of the poems, even despair, but it tends to be counterbalanced by the charm and daftness.โ€

โ€”Rhys Hughes on the sublime daftness of Ivor Cutler

4/7

https://borderlessjournal.com/2021/06/14/never-knowingly-understood-the-sublime-daftness-of-ivor-cutler/

#Scottish #literature #poetry #humour #humor #surrealism #absurdist#IvorCutler

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โ€œCutler performed on the opening night of BBC Two, recorded more John Peel sessions than any other act except The Fall, played Buster Bloodvessel in The Beatlesโ€™ A Magical Mystery Tour and was, according to Peel, the first performer to appear on Radios 1, 2, 3 and 4.โ€

โ€”Bruce Lindsay answers ten questions on his biography of Ivor Cutler

3/7

https://theartsdesk.com/books/10-questions-bruce-lindsay-biographer-ivor-cutler

#Scottish #literature #poetry #humour #humor #surrealism #absurdist#IvorCutler #biography

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โ€œI have a harmonium and itโ€™s going to explode in two minutesโ€

Ivor Cutler (1923โ€“2006) โ€“ poet, humorist, absurdist, musician โ€“ was born #OTD, 15 Jan. A ๐ŸŽ‚ ๐Ÿงต โ€ฆ

In 2013, to mark what would have been his 90th birthday, BBC Radio 4 celebrated his life & career:

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0381jzt

#Scottish #literature #poetry #humour #humor #surrealism #absurdist#IvorCutler

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Imagine the "3 Laws of Robotics," but replace the word "#Robot" with "#Corporations."

(0- Corps Can't Harm Humanity)

1-Corps Donโ€™t harm or allow harm to humans.
2-Corps Obey humans, unless that violates Law 1.
3-Corps must Survive, unless that violates Laws 1 or 2.

#3Laws#3LawsCorp
#IsaacAsimov
#Ethics#CorpEthics
#Punk#CyberPunk#Humor#SciFi#SF