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Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry

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Are we, therefore, arriving at the answer as to why I wrote this article about a small book from the 70s? The title of this novel may seem a bit rude, but it refers to a method of accountancy invented by an Italian monk in the late fifteenth century (apparently). Christie's Section Head was riled at this, and, forgetting he was putting the company's reputation in jeopardy, he suggested that were Skater to come within a hundred yards of him he would (before he could carry out his threat) be subjected to a rapid process of trituration.

Luca Bartolomeo Picioli, the Tuscan monk who codified the method in 1494, and has dominated the world ever since. The premise of the novel is simple - Christie, a young accountant who is dissatisfied with his life, but wants to work in proximity to money, takes a series of jobs for which he learns double-entry accounting. a debit must be noted; after which, society would have to be paid back appropriately, so that the paper credit would accrue to Christy's account.Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry was made into a movie in 2000, directed by Paul Tickell and with Nick Moran as Christie Malry. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged.

Christie then resigns from his job and, shortly afterwards, Bernie is killed in a vehicle collision. Despite starting his career with aspirations of financial success, Malry soon get bogged down in Reggie-Perrin like frustrations about the injustices of life (the atmosphere was acrid with frustration, boredom and jealousy, black with acrimony, pettiness and bureaucracy), and invents his own form of double-entry bookkeeping with debits for the petty aggravations in life, and credits as he gets his own back on the world with, initially, relatively petty retaliations. I got the feeling that he thought the novel was the only thing worth writing, because it’s a big statement, but he didn’t have any faith in either it or himself to make any statement worth getting out of bed for. The general feeling about Christie is one of sinking’ – Christie dies of pneumonia, death rattling the book to close.His «credit-rate» starts from simple acts of vandalism, and escalate to a magnificent, misanthropic plan. In our world, however, this omission is impossible, as everything we hold dear is happily accounted for. The double-entry book described by the title is quite literal and its pages show up frequently throughout the book. It did not take him long to realise that he had not been born into money; that he would therefore have to acquire it as best he could; that there were unpleasant (and to him unacceptable) penalties for acquiring it by those methods considered to be criminal by society; that there were other methods not (somewhat arbitrarily) considered criminal by society; and that the course most likely to benefit him would be to place himself next to the money, or at least to those who were making it.

Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry is well worth reading -- both a great deal of fun and thoughtful, too. and then says absolutely nothing about his father), the characters recognize that they are the characters in the novel (like when the mother of Christie’s girlfriend gets excited: “Aaaaer, it was worth it, all those years of sacrifice, just to get my daughter placed in a respectable novel like this, you know. Reminding me somewhat of Luke Rhineheart‘s ‘ The Dice Man,’ ‘ Christie Malry’s Own Double Entry’ also deals with a new way of forging your way through life, a new prism through which to see the pointless and random nature of existence.It’s while undertaking his accountancy training that he comes across the system of double-entry book-keeping (which Johnson informs us was invented by a Tuscan contemporary of Leonardo da Vinci, Fra Luca Bartolomeo Pacioli), and which inspires him to set up a system of moral double-entry book-keeping. Das hat diesen kurzen Roman frisch gehalten, über Aufstieg und Ende des Thatcherismus hinaus bis in die Tage von "New Labour" und "Neuer Mitte". Not exactly speculative fiction in the usual sense, but I liked the way the book was described, and the more I heard about B S Johnson, the more I felt like this book would appeal to me.

S. Johnson's most humorous book but it is a dark, sly humour predicated on the distaste Johnson had for an oppressive post-war British society (an oppression he delineates brilliantly in The Unfortunates ).The narrator interjects himself regularly into the text, commenting on the conventions of novel writing as he implements, or bends, those rules. At the end of an unnumbered page of delicate evocation – ‘His average eyes appeared sunken, ringed with yellow-brown; his average cheeks had sunk, too. So Kirby, and all other fictional characters, must act like she is in a story, and not like a real person. The characters are also well-drawn, from Christie's feeble oppressors to his colourful colleague Headlam and his love-interest, the Shrike ("He was very uncomplicated, Christie, and in the Shrike he had met his simple match.

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