Perhaps my most fundamental illusion is this. That people exist in a rational state of being. That I do too. At base it is a political illusion that I should think this. Indeed, because it concerns the ‘total economy’ of how one functions. I mean something like the following. That I tend to suppose that rationality… [Read more…]
August 10, 2007
Fiction can be used as a way of quarantining those parts of the world with which one does not identify, that are inimical. Forty days and forty nights. Swallows and Amazons. Tintin also … What is quarantined is never stated. But the effect is to render the world innocent of the quarantined thing.
June 3, 2007
When I first read Swallows and Amazons, as a boy, as with many of the other novels that I read, but especially this one – I remember being repeatedly struck by the way that here was a story – . My life lacked this altogether; it had no story in it. Indeed that feeling of a… [Read more…]
March 19, 2007
Standing in a train is sometimes like standing in a wardrobe full of old clothes. The train is crowded.
November 26, 2007
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