tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467119.post6150019257912218422..comments2023-10-24T10:09:22.146+01:00Comments on The Yorkshire Ranter: Indecent behaviour at a police station, TPCA 1847Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17153530634675543954noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467119.post-60152139960208476912008-06-06T12:55:00.000+01:002008-06-06T12:55:00.000+01:00After the Salman Rushdie fatwa McEwan wrote an inc...After the Salman Rushdie fatwa McEwan wrote an incredibly pompous piece about, now that religion is dead, writers and novelists are the new high priests and pontiffs and grand muftis of civilization.<BR/><BR/>Quite oblivious to the irony. <BR/><BR/>johnfAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467119.post-14660239934202035432008-06-02T16:47:00.000+01:002008-06-02T16:47:00.000+01:00Why give a location at all - someone, after all, w...<I>Why give a location at all - someone, after all, will have danced for joy somewhere?<BR/></I><BR/><BR/>Someone, of course, did; notoriously, five idiot Israeli students managed to get themselves arrested for dancing about and acting like cocks in Manhattan itself, and ended up playing all sorts of roles in the conspiracy literature everafter.<BR/><BR/>btw, it's not a bad essay, but awfully familiar from its first time round when it was written by John Gray and called "Black Mass".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467119.post-34159030186565448362008-06-02T10:40:00.000+01:002008-06-02T10:40:00.000+01:00And it starts with what has to be the very worst o...And it starts with what has to be the very worst opening sentence to any piece of writing, ever. I couldn't get beyond it. Self-indulgent, tautological, confusing, overwrought... Actually, it's pretty much the straw that broke this camel's back when it comes to wanky elitist literati. It means I can never go to another literature festival again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467119.post-54812140508855511882008-06-02T07:25:00.000+01:002008-06-02T07:25:00.000+01:00To be honest, even the non-Decent parts of the ess...To be honest, even the non-Decent parts of the essay were a hodgepodge. that was actively painful to read.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com