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Alison Clement
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Twenty Questions
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2006
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Pretty Is As Pretty Does
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2001
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maybe Man Ray
One of the Dadists, maybe Man Ray, used to say if you don’t like something, then go look at something else. I think of that a lot these days where everything elicits an opinion, a vote, a certain number of stars. Where if a person has a problem with someone else’s ideas or what they said or how they parked in the lot at Trader Joe’s or if they used the wrong word, it’s something to comment on. May
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“She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour.”
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“They had nothing in common but the English language.”
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“Why should our rulers, normally phlegmatic men, react with sudden hysteria to the pinpricks of terrorism when for decades they were able to go about their everyday business unruffled, in full awareness that in a deep bunker somewhere in the Urals an enemy watched and waited with a finger on a button, ready if provoked to wipe them and their cities from the face of the earth?”
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“A few days ago I heard a performance of the Sibelius fifth symphony. As the closing bars approached, I experienced exactly the large, swelling emotion that the music was written to elicit. What would it have been like, I wondered, to be a Finn in the audience at the first performance of the symphony in Helsinki nearly a century ago, and feel that swell overtake one? The answer: one would have felt proud, proud that one of us could put together such sounds, proud that out of nothing we human beings can make such stuff. Contrast with that one´s feelings of shame that we, our people, have made Guantanamo. Musical creation on the one hand, a machine for inflicting pain and humiliation on the other: the best and the worst that human beings are capable of.”
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“Home. When it rains, you can smell the leaves in the forest and the sand. It's all so small and mild, the landscape surrounding the lake, so manageable. The leaves and the sand are so close, it's as if you might, if you wanted, pull them on over your head. And the lake always laps at the shore so gently, licking the hand you dip into it like a young dog, and the water is soft and shallow.”
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Thanks for the "add," as they say on Myspace. I thought that the JM Coetzee comments on the "war on terror" (at least Gordon Brown deleted that one from the British lexicon) and Guantanemo were interesting - although I don't think that Stalinism and the Soviet Union ever posed any real threat to "the west." By contrast, the threat posed by al-Qaedia is real, a creature (in part) of failed western foreign policy but grossly exaggerated by our respective governments to service domestic and foreign policy agendas. Certainly, Guantanemo and the policy of extraordinary rendition are obscene and (apart from anything else) the greatest recruitment sergeant that al-Qaeda could have dreamed of.
I'm currently writing the sequel to my retrospective crime thriller (ENEMY WITHIN) set during the 1985 miners strike and published in April. The sequel is set in 1997 (between Euro 96 and Blair's election victory) and about football violence and police corruption - using the crime novel again as a medium to explore what ails our country socially and politically. Concurrent with this, I'm writing a film script about a Bosnian asylum seeker who gets drawn into a vigilante conspiracy in Birmingham and ends up (unwittingly) killing a police protected witness. However, my NEXT project is going to be about extraordinary rendition, the arms trade and Iran-Contra.
Your group on Latin American Literature looks really interesting although I don't speak or write Spanish. I've been trying to track down this book written in serial form, on the Internet, by this Mexican noir crime writer and one of the leaders of the Zapatistas