the plight of a The Economist subscription
blog-surfing recently, i've noticed a trend towards book-quoting. popular favourites are arundhati roy's "the god of small things", jack kerouac etc. of course reading these quotes make me want to book-quote also. i think hard: what was the last amazing piece of fiction i read?
i can remember the last pieces of fiction i attempted:
deception by philip roth, which i abandoned because the entirely-conversational conceit was bothering me; the little prince by antoine st-exeupery (hardly nobel-prize winning literature), and to be fair, read in about half an hour in the sun on redang; lolita by vladimir nabokov which i also abandoned; and jonathan strange and mr. norrell, again, abandoned. in fact, the last book i was actually really getting into was primary colours (the clinton satire by "anonymous" which actually turned out to be joe klein, famous journalist and also author of The Natural: Bill Clinton's Misunderstood Presidency which i loved) which i also put down after a while because i realised that i've actually read the thing before. (that's a whole other level of sadness which should be saved for another time)
and then it occurs to me that the last book i actually read in its entirety was eat, pray, love (hardly fiction), and that my latest library receipt reads:
primary colours
noam chomsky's Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
john kampfner's Blair's Wars
eeee. and all i read is the economist somemore. i have become one of those! a philistine who does not read inspiring gorgeous literature anymore, only socio-political polemics!
i always knew my passion was politics, but i also always prided myself on being able to appreciate good literature. i mean..i did english at A level! but horror of horrors: it turns out that once i stopped having to read literature for literature's sake, i subconciously cut it out of my life entirely. the desire to attempt enjoyment of those dense, difficult pieces of prose has been entirely lost on my part along with the need to do english academically. in fact, the last piece of poetry to inspire me appeared in The Economist:
"Thou canst not stir a flower/Without troubling of a star"
and this was of course in relation to..
the interdependence of markets. i.e "faster car sales in Texas result in an increase in grocery shopping in Detroit, home of America's 'big three' carmakers."
when did this happen? a part of me is actually very sad that things have gone down this way. but i suppose the more self-aware bit knows that it was inevitable. doesn't make me feel less ashamed about not having book quotes though. in fact, i am going to go buy the god of small things now! just because i am slowly sinking into the cesspit of cultural barbarism, does not mean i should take it lying down.
i can remember the last pieces of fiction i attempted:
deception by philip roth, which i abandoned because the entirely-conversational conceit was bothering me; the little prince by antoine st-exeupery (hardly nobel-prize winning literature), and to be fair, read in about half an hour in the sun on redang; lolita by vladimir nabokov which i also abandoned; and jonathan strange and mr. norrell, again, abandoned. in fact, the last book i was actually really getting into was primary colours (the clinton satire by "anonymous" which actually turned out to be joe klein, famous journalist and also author of The Natural: Bill Clinton's Misunderstood Presidency which i loved) which i also put down after a while because i realised that i've actually read the thing before. (that's a whole other level of sadness which should be saved for another time)
and then it occurs to me that the last book i actually read in its entirety was eat, pray, love (hardly fiction), and that my latest library receipt reads:
primary colours
noam chomsky's Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
john kampfner's Blair's Wars
eeee. and all i read is the economist somemore. i have become one of those! a philistine who does not read inspiring gorgeous literature anymore, only socio-political polemics!
i always knew my passion was politics, but i also always prided myself on being able to appreciate good literature. i mean..i did english at A level! but horror of horrors: it turns out that once i stopped having to read literature for literature's sake, i subconciously cut it out of my life entirely. the desire to attempt enjoyment of those dense, difficult pieces of prose has been entirely lost on my part along with the need to do english academically. in fact, the last piece of poetry to inspire me appeared in The Economist:
"Thou canst not stir a flower/Without troubling of a star"
and this was of course in relation to..
the interdependence of markets. i.e "faster car sales in Texas result in an increase in grocery shopping in Detroit, home of America's 'big three' carmakers."
when did this happen? a part of me is actually very sad that things have gone down this way. but i suppose the more self-aware bit knows that it was inevitable. doesn't make me feel less ashamed about not having book quotes though. in fact, i am going to go buy the god of small things now! just because i am slowly sinking into the cesspit of cultural barbarism, does not mean i should take it lying down.
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