Monthly Archives: April 2013

_66725429_63880152Novelist Iain Banks (above), who writes sci-fi as Iain M Banks, has announced he has only months left to live.

Fellow Scottish author, Ian Rankin, said the news of [Iain] Banks’ terminal cancer was “just awful”.

He Tweeted: “Typical of Iain to propose marriage to his partner Adele with the words ‘Will you do me the honour of becoming my widow?”

 

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Iain Banks diagnosed with gall bladder cancer (Guardian)

Thanks Mark Dennehy and Sid

(Pic:BBC)

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Siblling of Daedalus writes:

German propaganda cards (via Ebay), part of the ‘England Robber-State’ series, detailing British abuses in Ireland. The first deals with the Famine, the second depicts a semi-naked Ireland on a crucifix bemoaning her fate. The cards appear to date from the Third Reich era but the illustrations used first appeared in 19th century French journals.

Gut times.