Comments on: A Walk With Clive Murphy https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/06/10/a-walk-with-clive-murphy/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Wed, 15 Jan 2025 13:48:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: Dorothy V. Malcolm https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/06/10/a-walk-with-clive-murphy/#comment-1682503 Wed, 15 Jan 2025 13:48:02 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=64431#comment-1682503 Wow! Now there’s a fascinating character!
Enjoyed this story and the others you’ve given us about Clive, his writings, collections, and lifestyle.
Thank you, gentle author, for all these years of the people, businesses, architecture, and life in the East End. I have loved this blog for such a long time. Thanks again.

Best wishes from Ipswich (MA) in the U.S.
— Dorothy V. Malcolm

]]> By: Mike Zim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/06/10/a-walk-with-clive-murphy/#comment-1384200 Sun, 27 Jun 2021 18:56:25 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=64431#comment-1384200 A very enjoyable report on your walkabout with Clive.

The mismatched shoes detail brings to mind Johnson and Boswell:
“Early in his biography Boswell remarks “that minute particulars are frequently characteristick, and always amusing, when they relate to a distinguished man.” In the hands of an artful biographer, these minute particulars, like so many well-placed dots in a pointillist painting, conduce to provide a satisfyingly full picture. So it is with the “Life of Johnson.” Boswell shows us his subject’s gruff table manners, how he walked, his laugh (like that of a rhinoceros), his terror of death, his immense—one can only call it his Christian—generosity to the poor and those defeated by life.” –Joseph Epstein

]]> By: Peter Hart https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/06/10/a-walk-with-clive-murphy/#comment-1383524 Fri, 18 Jun 2021 12:40:17 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=64431#comment-1383524 A wonderful interesting fellow. Thank you

]]> By: Dan Cat https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/06/10/a-walk-with-clive-murphy/#comment-98847 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 15:57:11 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=64431#comment-98847 How wonderful to know more about Clive, a fellow regular of Sweet’n’spicy. This makes me miss it even more. We need some kind of support group!

]]> By: Mary Moulder https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/06/10/a-walk-with-clive-murphy/#comment-85656 Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:43:24 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=64431#comment-85656 What a charming man! It is like meeting somebody that I felt I had already known, but didn’t know from when or where. Thank you

]]> By: Cherub https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/06/10/a-walk-with-clive-murphy/#comment-53636 Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:14:38 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=64431#comment-53636 Glad to read the Aladin is still there. I spent happy times there with friends when I was a mature student at Queen Mary College in the mid 90s. It was always cheap and very cheerful!

]]> By: isabella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/06/10/a-walk-with-clive-murphy/#comment-53010 Mon, 11 Jun 2012 07:11:34 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=64431#comment-53010 Loved this and I too remember walking around the area and being so happy to imagine how life used to be and will carry on exploring London streets on foot and beathing in the atmosphere.I also love old graveyards and churches.I think Clive Murphy with his odd shoes is amazing.

]]> By: John Campbell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/06/10/a-walk-with-clive-murphy/#comment-52916 Sun, 10 Jun 2012 18:33:16 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=64431#comment-52916 Love the lino portrait! A dedicated feature on this artist and her work please.

]]> By: Annie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/06/10/a-walk-with-clive-murphy/#comment-52870 Sun, 10 Jun 2012 09:35:42 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=64431#comment-52870 More mellow genius on a middling Sunday morning…I keep clicking on links to items I have never read. Excellent accompaniment to coffee and cake.

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