|
|
Post by Tomas on Oct 10, 2019 13:29:03 GMT
*yawn* and so it came; predictable as a copied tired pamphlet from the Iron Curtain, two more designed choices to serve some purpose to tamper the severely lowered status of the Academy - probably failing grand in more than one way. Who gets excited by these writers? What´s left of the Left, apart from the die hard Communist falangists apparently still influencing the literary elite committees?
Came to think of the Oscar Wilde quote muddy turned backwards in ricochet: "we are all in the gutter but some of us (the good ones) choose to grout a little lower and deeper than the others (the non-Socialist conspirators and Conservatives!)" |
|
|
|
Post by cato on Oct 12, 2019 19:18:43 GMT
The Irish author John Banville was the victim of a "cruel" goal according to RTE were someone rang him and convinced him he had won the Nobel prize for literature this year. Apparently he rang all his chums to gloat and then his daughter rang him with the actual news
Banville is a typical example of the contemporary Irish establishment who despises , Irish nationalism , Catholicism and all that superstition. He denounced Pearse as a fascist around the 1916 centenary I recall. I read one of his novels and it wasn't bad but I wouldn't bother enriching him by buying any more.
Hopefully he is feeling as sick as a parrot. Every cloud has a silver lining Tomas.
|
|
|
|
Post by Séamus on Oct 14, 2019 8:44:04 GMT
*yawn* and so it came; predictable as a copied tired pamphlet from the Iron Curtain, two more designed choices to serve some purpose to tamper the severely lowered status of the Academy - probably failing grand in more than one way. Who gets excited by these writers? What´s left of the Left, apart from the die hard Communist falangists apparently still influencing the literary elite committees?
Came to think of the Oscar Wilde quote muddy turned backwards in ricochet: "we are all in the gutter but some of us (the good ones) choose to grout a little lower and deeper than the others (the non-Socialist conspirators and Conservatives!)" The news-article that I saw first about Abiy Ahmed's peace prize win showed the prime minister's photo next to the more famous Miss Greta,making me think that the prize had in fact been shared. But,no,it was just that newspaper staff were getting their heads around Thunberg not winning. Maybe it seemed too much like favouritism,like following the Bob Dylan precedent by adding Roxette or ABBA to the literary laureates. The award may have alluded Flann O'Brien,but one passage in At-Swim-Two-Birds had significance last week- when religious Sisters are included in a description of UCD foot-traffic. I'm not sure how close a relationship there had to be in the 1930s between Catholicism and an institution used to educate nuns,but we can see that, while the university may well have been secular for over a century as stated,the relationship has existed at some level and a canonisation can certainly be marked in some way. Congratulations to Eliud Kipchoge and his marathon record. His strength has been partly attributed to Maurten drink. No one will take that one from Sweden. Speaking of Noble-winning Dylan,while I've never cared for Elton John's music (even), excerpts of his autobiography published in newspapers,mostly dealing with his drug and alcohol addictions, have been interesting for their honesty,if nothing else. For some reason they also included a paragraph about a game of charades he tried playing with Bob,Art Garfunkel and Paul Simons,he claims that the three couldn't manage it at all;a point being that Dylan,a celebrated songwriter, didn't seem to understand 'syllabels' or 'sounds like/rhymes with'. Curiously, all three guests had Eastern European Jewish backgrounds. |
|
|
|
Post by Tomas on Oct 14, 2019 9:01:46 GMT
The Irish author John Banville was the victim of a "cruel" goal according to RTE were someone rang him and convinced him he had won the Nobel prize for literature this year. Apparently he rang all his chums to gloat and then his daughter rang him with the actual news Banville is a typical example of the contemporary Irish establishment who despises , Irish nationalism , Catholicism and all that superstition. He denounced Pearse as a fascist around the 1916 centenary I recall. I read one of his novels and it wasn't bad but I wouldn't bother enriching him by buying any more. Hopefully he is feeling as sick as a parrot. Every cloud has a silver lining Tomas. Poor soul. I wasn´t in for degrading anyone´s dignity by posting on this, just got sick to receive the news once again that they go on always promoting only certain kind of writings. The whole business of hailing Leftist modernists tends to feel politicalised beyond measure. |
|
