The Dog With The Bakelite Nose
Ian Hutson
- Ten
- slightly
- mouldy
- slices
- of
- England’s
- brilliant
- future
- failures,
- each
- successfully
- consigned
- to
- the
- pre-apologetic,
- more
- successful
- past.
- Wonderfully
- tragic
- beginnings
- meet
- gruesomely
- happy
- endings,
- miserable
- lives
- wallow
- in
- cheerful
- second
- chances.
- Old-fashioned
- blokes,
- being
- blokes,
- doing
- awfully
- modern
- bloke
- things
- such
- as
- inventing
- stuff
- and
- exploring
- space,
- but
- with
- not
- a
- caricature
- or
- stereotype
- left
- undisturbed.
- The
- science
- is
- ridiculous,
- the
- plots
- are
- risible.
- The
- opening
- line
- of
- the
- first
- story
- is
- “Awoogah!
- Awoogah!”
- and
- that’s
- got
- to
- be
- one
- heck
- of
- a
- clue.
- This
- is
- England’s
- beautiful,
- bumbling,
- blue-blooded
- belligerence,
- lovingly
- portrayed
- in
- properly-punctuated,
- politically-incorrect,
- purple
- prose.Enjoy
- tales
- of
- rocket-ships
- crewed
- by
- utter
- idiots,
- of
- hung-over
- gurus
- struggling
- to
- meet
- demand,
- of
- some
- minor
- problems
- with
- the
- shape
- of
- the
- moon
- and
- of
- how
- we,
- the
- Smiths
- and
- the
- Browns
- and
- the
- Greens,
- side-stepped
- the
- rat-race,
- won
- the
- space-race
- and
- lost
- touch
- with
- the
- human
- race.This
- book
- is
- not
- about
- dogs,
- there
- are
- only
- two
- in
- the
- whole
- text
- and
- they
- are
- mentioned
- but
- incidentally.
- The
- characters
- in
- this
- book
- are
- much
- less
- well-adapted
- to
- the
- modern
- world
- than
- are
- either
- the
- Collie
- or
- the
- Labrador
- –
- they
- are
- Englishmen.The
- Dog
- With
- The
- Bakelite
- Nose
The
- Rarest
- Gift
- Of
- All
The
- Omnibudsman
The
- Man
- Who
- Invented
- Extremely
- Wet
- Water
Dry
- Sherry
- And
- Victoria
- Sponge
- In
- Space
Take
- Me
- To
- Your
- Leader
A
- Simple
- Matter
- Of
- Suitable
- Transportation
Woomera,
- We
- Have
- A
- Problem
Pendulum
- Swing,
- Pendulum
- Do
Voting
- Makes
- You Free
