[lit-ideas] Re: Sunday Poem (rather important missing word restored)
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 07:52:06 -0700
On May 23, 2007, at 6:05 AM, - phatic wrote:
JG Ballard on growing up in Shanghai, the cruelty of contemporary
Cannen , and life in suburbia Londonium.
http://download.itv.com/southbankshow/jgballard.mp3
I can't make up my mind whether the heading was an accident or an
invitation for me in particular to listen to JG Ballard going on about
how people who aren't like him... aren't like him. So, in doubt, I
accepted the invitation. Ballard has suffered; I should think your
wife suddenly dying of pneumonia and leaving you with three young
children to raise might well send you scatty. And the childhood trauma
recalled in "Empire of the Sun" was no small thing. But the man was
born into a snobbish colonial elite, learned its way of talking and now
goes on about how awful life is when you the planet with the lower
middle class on the one hand--people who like to go shopping and
replace old windows with better ones-- and on the other hand with folk
who enjoy the French Riviera and want to bash in the heads of
immigrants.
Generally I like loonies and am in favor of eccentricity; but snobs I
find hard to take. Maybe it's just the part of me I least like.
I am, by constrast, very much in favor of Holly Bachelor and her
Asteroid:
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=805432007
My favorite line is about particle physics being, "a good laugh."
Did you hear the one about the neutrino that went into a supercolliding
bar with a rabbi, an elf and three drops of superglue?
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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