One: it's up to you... .. and nobody likes you Why don't you do us all a favour and bog off back to Xanadu in Ireland Two: You hang around with camera crews in shellsuits You lecture on sweets and propose salad You are coming round to Viz comic You also make all history and related topics thematic Three: You are operation mindfuck on the children of this land Four: You are are a slowcoach of the first water Five You will probably cut my income by one-third Six: You are working now, researching a video project Seven: You, in a flash of intuitive brilliance, have garnered that many people are unemployed Eight: You hog the bathroom and never put your hand in your pocket Nine: You post out sixty-page computer print-outs on the end of the earth's days and forests Ten: All the above will come back to you in Purgatory and confirm you as a damn pest Me: dictum He focusses his clever-dick mentality on himself a: He looks at July roses yet does not have the mentality to cut them himself b: He was stuck like a little pig on castle lawns and said, "look at what's happened to my leg" c: He has thoughts, crack, Blake-like, like, while they sleep I'll plot to shaft the bastards in their cot, [ ] and c: Bit by bit...
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Ford, Simon (2003). Hip Priest: the story of Mark E Smith and The Fall. London: Quartet Books.
Mackay, Tommy (2018). 40 Odd Years of The Fall. Place of publication unknown: Greg Moodie.
Pringle, Steve (2022). You Must Get Them All: The Fall on Record. [paperback edition]. Pontefract: Route Publishing Ltd. [Online store]
Smith, Mark E. (1985). The Fall Lyrik & Texte Von Mark E. Smith. In Deutsch & Englisch. With Drawings by Brix. Berlin: The Lough Press. [AKA The Orange Book. Available online in The Internet Archive]
Smith, Mark E. (2008). vII. The Lough Press & AMarquisManipulationProductions. [AKA the Blue Lyrics Book]