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Nicolas Sutro's avatar

Oh man, this is banging. Never mind Mrs Thatcher crying with laughter, I’m doubled up.

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Nick Ingram's avatar

I'm wondering if this is some kind of niche fetish you could sell through on Only Fans!! 😎

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Claire Ivins's avatar

Did he create his own index? That’s god-level indexing

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Jonathan Law's avatar

I believe so, yes

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Melissa Harrison's avatar

This is amazing!

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Jonathan Law's avatar

Isn't it! The 1970s indexes are every bit as good https://jonathanlaw.substack.com/p/dominic-sandbrooks-indexes-of-the

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Melissa Harrison's avatar

I hesitate to make the comparison but I edited Shaun Ryder’s 2000 ghostwritten memoir, Hallelujah!, and the index to that had me lying on the grubby Hammersmith office carpet in the foetal position one afternoon, sort of FITTING with laughter. The first entry there, the Tony Benn one, is really not unlike.

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Jonathan Law's avatar

I can believe it. Paula Clarke Bain, the indexer, had a good series a few years back on comedy book indexes https://baindex.org/tag/comedy/

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Melissa Harrison's avatar

I need to send her Hallelujah, it would seem.

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