The three things a film needs, Jean Luc Godard said, are a girl, a gun, and a car.
The three things a song needs, Tom Waits, are a car, a place name, and a sandwich. Or something like that.
The three things a good book needs are...? Suggestions please.
I propose:
1) Touaregs with guitars.
2) An industrial estate.
3) A chinchilla.
Not bad. I suggest:
ReplyDelete1) An unsolved plane crash
2) Go-go dancers
and
3) Cancer
1) Some Stydung
ReplyDelete2) A Miss Fitt
3) Blancmange
Three things an Irish novel needs:
ReplyDeletesomeone with an alcohol problem (to make the reader feel grounded in Irish ethnic space); some intercultural references, e.g. the Asian Gaelic Games Festival; at least one redeeming insight plagiarised from The Philosophy of Andy Warhol