I loved Old Filth—I picked it up for the title, took it home for the detail and oddity of the first few pages, finished it last night. I didn't realize until the afterword that it was intertextual with Rudyard Kipling's "Baa Baa, Black Sheep" and some (shifted forward in time) of his own childhood. I had no more idea of the story than the vague jacket-flap summary. The moral of the story: hunter-gatherer book instincts are always to be trusted.
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I loved Old Filth—I picked it up for the title, took it home for the detail and oddity of the first few pages, finished it last night. I didn't realize until the afterword that it was intertextual with Rudyard Kipling's "Baa Baa, Black Sheep" and some (shifted forward in time) of his own childhood. I had no more idea of the story than the vague jacket-flap summary. The moral of the story: hunter-gatherer book instincts are always to be trusted.