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Not that I've been doing an awful lot, or have had little time to write: merely that the inclination to share my experiences and opinions seems to be sporadic at best.
However, I did read the P. D. James novel "Death comes to Pemberley" last week, among other works of fiction and fact. It had been recommended to me by a number of people, all of whom knew that "Persuasion" is one of my most reread novels.
Sequels to "Pride and Prejudice" abound, I understand: though I have never read more than a few pages of any without discarding the offensive thing promptly. Baroness James is a better writer than those who have tried before her, and deserving of more consideration, so I laboured my way to the end of her novel.
It just goes to show that Austen, like Wodehouse, is inimitable. Lady James gives us a more modern and realistic take on the period, though she strays into Downton Abbey territory with an overemphasis on life "below-stairs". Also, introducing characters from "Persuasion" appears both incongruous to the original P & P story arc whilst simultaneously playing to a knowing gallery of fan-fiction readers.
At least it is a better sort of best-seller than the fifty shades of wife-beating wealth-and-power-worshipping misogyny disguised as erotica which has apparently become the book du jour for contemporary women: which tells me a lot about the sort of modern women who read it. That fifty shades was written by a woman just makes it worse, I suppose.
Sometimes I despair of modern culture. I do not dislike pr0n, in fact I like pr0n. It's just I like my pr0n to be equal-opportunity and non-exploitative in nature, and specifically, I find wealth-and-power-worshipping pr0n distasteful and degrading to the idea of sexuality. If folk want to be fucked by an obscenely large bank balance, why object to the actions the bankers have taken over the last few years? Why object to the asset strippers, the wealthcreators collectors (for that is what they do, they collect wealth for themselves at the expense of others) or the oligarchs, or plutocrats?
Oh, that's right: in the modern world folk don't have any objections to these folk whatsoever. In fact they aim to emulate them in as many ways as possible.
And this is why I feel disinclined to share my thoughts and opinions. It seems I don't quite have the required values for the post-Reagan/Thatcher modern world, and am loathe to rant at empty stalls. One instinctively knows when one is sidelined.
However, I did read the P. D. James novel "Death comes to Pemberley" last week, among other works of fiction and fact. It had been recommended to me by a number of people, all of whom knew that "Persuasion" is one of my most reread novels.
Sequels to "Pride and Prejudice" abound, I understand: though I have never read more than a few pages of any without discarding the offensive thing promptly. Baroness James is a better writer than those who have tried before her, and deserving of more consideration, so I laboured my way to the end of her novel.
It just goes to show that Austen, like Wodehouse, is inimitable. Lady James gives us a more modern and realistic take on the period, though she strays into Downton Abbey territory with an overemphasis on life "below-stairs". Also, introducing characters from "Persuasion" appears both incongruous to the original P & P story arc whilst simultaneously playing to a knowing gallery of fan-fiction readers.
At least it is a better sort of best-seller than the fifty shades of wife-beating wealth-and-power-worshipping misogyny disguised as erotica which has apparently become the book du jour for contemporary women: which tells me a lot about the sort of modern women who read it. That fifty shades was written by a woman just makes it worse, I suppose.
Sometimes I despair of modern culture. I do not dislike pr0n, in fact I like pr0n. It's just I like my pr0n to be equal-opportunity and non-exploitative in nature, and specifically, I find wealth-and-power-worshipping pr0n distasteful and degrading to the idea of sexuality. If folk want to be fucked by an obscenely large bank balance, why object to the actions the bankers have taken over the last few years? Why object to the asset strippers, the wealth
Oh, that's right: in the modern world folk don't have any objections to these folk whatsoever. In fact they aim to emulate them in as many ways as possible.
And this is why I feel disinclined to share my thoughts and opinions. It seems I don't quite have the required values for the post-Reagan/Thatcher modern world, and am loathe to rant at empty stalls. One instinctively knows when one is sidelined.
