Bryan, as we all know, has some apocalyptic tendencies of his own. You'd never know it from this review, which is what makes Bryan such a great journalist. Like mon semblable, mon frère Nige I am increasingly skeptical of the global warming prophets (I used to be just agnostic). But I can go along with what Overy says. I already have a daintier carbon footprint than the bloviating Gore, and always have. To begin with, I don't drive. And I certainly don't fly on private jets. Or have a huge houseboat.
Sign me up for the "sceptical party," please.
Overy left the Labour party in 1997, when Blair was elected prime minister, and now describes himself as a nonaligned member of the (nonexistent) sceptical party. His central political position — which is not really right or left — is that we need to resist the overweening claims of the state.
The concluding 'graph on this piece approaches poetry, IMO. It reminded me why I so admire this guy's prose (or, bluntly? When I read something I wish I'd written, I know I'm made privy to drool-worthy greatness-in-the-making).
ReplyDeleteThink BA ought to put together a book of essays with subjects such as cricket versus baseball; Flaneurs; balloonatics (Sam Leith's coinage); high heels; Nigenecessities; "Hallelujah" (which already exists); the myth of closure; Canadian veneers (and, no, I don't mean teeth although, in a way, I guess I do, if you're thinking shark-chomperings); rather, the sheen of niceness that really represents the tip of the sliceberg, the nine-tenths unseen that really runs mean and LC's music contains enough pointers to craft a good one; plus, it would be so Un-PCeistic, it would get lots of press and sell a mill (with or without flossing); and, then, he could send me one-percent and I could live another year :)).
Well, I'm procrastinating, what else does one do but think of work for others to pursue?
Which explains it.
p.s. For me? I shall write a book of poems with titles based on word-veri thingies, starting now with probilit :)
p.p.s. No, I won't include Darth Vader nor anything to do with Star Warps!<---- That's 4 FDL :)
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