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Mick Canning's avatar

If I say I loved that you received a string of abusive emails from a professor at Cornell University, I trust you'll understand my sentiments - definitely a tribute to your creativity, David.

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Hookland's avatar

Thank you Mick. Kind of you to say.

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Len Bogan's avatar

"The Speed of Green Gods" is a wonderful piece. You are so adept at breathing life into uncanny things.

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Hookland's avatar

Thank you Len. I am not clever enough to be a poet, so that is a deeply kind comment.

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Retroculturati's avatar

Joyful and instead always. Very grateful for what you do. Hookland is the finest respite from today’s world I can think of

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Hookland's avatar

Thank you. The county has always aimed to the comfort of old fears against new terrors, the balm of ghost soil.

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Hookland's avatar

We live in such a world that new terrors can come from the engines of modernity.

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Hookland's avatar

Remember Mao when asked about the French Revolution? Modernism was also forged in Çatalhöyük, Kish, Lagash and Uruk et al. There is no temporal bucolic. There is no Golden Age. There is no return, only a holding to essential aspects that connect us across time.

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Scott Campbell's avatar

Shame about Mysteries Beyond Sherlock. It would a great companion piece to In Search Of.

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Hookland's avatar

A superior piece in my opinion.

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Hookland's avatar

No, because they already featured in two puppet-based shows the channel had broadcast.

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Scott Campbell's avatar

Did Hookland Associated Television ever consider commissioning a cartoon about the antlered dormice?

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