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Our Response to a review by Jan Morris

We have read the review of ‘West’ which Jan Morris wrote for the current issue of IWA’s journal Agenda and when Sir Andrew Motion wrote his review of the book in The Guardian, 24/07/2010, we commented that ‘we relished the element of damning with faint praise.’ We feel Jan Morris’s review has similarities. There are several ideas which could be thought ‘tongue in cheek’ and we were intrigued.

Certain words and phrases she used struck us — written as they were of a book in which, as Sir Andrew Motion pointed out, our deceased sister is a main character:   ‘… fertile imagination’;  ‘a wife died’. (Actually, she was not his wife, as Sir Andrew picked up — only to be ‘corrected’ by ‘Melangell’ (JP?) on the comments thread lyingly stating that she was, and Jac planned to terminate the relationship had she lived.)

‘Given the imaginative genius of its author, though, and the somewhat elusive substance of his recollections…’;   ‘…that dreaded moment of diagnosis’;   ‘…and he himself was diagnosed with terminal cancer.’ (For the record, we have been told that Jim Perrin was obliged to admit that he does not have cancer. Ref. our post: ‘Was Jim Perrin in Ariège for the sake of his health?’) Continue reading →

Jim Perrin protests too much

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The following was our comment on a story on the To Hatch a Crow site:

“It is all very well for Jim Perrin to lead a protest against wind turbines on his ‘native’ Welsh hills’ thus augmenting his ‘image’ and showing his passionate attachment to Wales — the ‘countryside of his forbears’.”

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Sir Andrew Motion wrote in his review of West in The Guardian, 24/07/2010, ‘of his [Jim Perrin’s] native Wales’,  and Stephen Knight wrote in the T.L.S. 14/01/2011:  ‘the return to his Welsh roots in North Wales’. ‘Scotinparis’ wrote on the ensuing Guardian review thread, 24/07/2010:  ‘Fairly sure Jim Perrin comes from Manchester so it’s not his “native Wales” ‘, and ‘Walterluke’ wrote in answer on the same thread — ‘however, he is a Welsh speaker [?] and of Welsh birth ’.  WE believe that ‘Walterluke’ is one of the aliases which Jim Perrin used in the course of this dialogue to plant misinformation and to ‘puff’ his book West…

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However, he is NOT Welsh by heritage as he continually asserts — amazing what information may be found on the internet, and we intend to show his genealogy chart shortly… Continue reading →

Jim Perrin accused Jac’s sisters of ‘Pillaging’

One has only to read so far as page 6 of West to come upon these virulent words. We quote them in full for those who have not read Jim Perrin’s book:

There was nothing to detain me in the caravan by the stream where she and I had mostly lived for the last eighteen months.* To continue there was clearly going to become increasingly difficult and inconvenient as well as painful, for pathological savagery circles after a death, breeding in families, seeking a focus and seeking a target, the guilt of those who neglected and exploited and abused fixing invariably post mortem on those who cared for and provided.

Autonomous human love is always a threat to those whose claims on affection are based not on right behaviour but through propinquity. In the aftermath of a death, the close and caring bereaved are often made homeless, their joint belongings pillaged, whilst the erstwhile-negligent blood-tied ones are emotionally and materialistically merciless in their reappropriations of the deceased. Continue reading →