All that matters in life
is knowing when one has been slightly diverted by a splendid freckly face. But
more importantly why
Not that anyone any more is ABLE to tell their story...it seems.
So, one can never know. All that matters (to me..)
Only yesterday did i come up with reason number 3 why books are best.
Better than film, or even radio plays.
reason number 1.
Fact of life:
watch a video talk, or even great movie - i know the best! on
socio politics, culture, philosophy etc., it - the real subject material,
goes in a BIT.
Listen to the same subject material on even Mister Bragg's superb programs https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl/episodes/player
In Our Time,
or the most superb of radio plays such as Souter used to write, and
Mike Walker alone still can, it goes in a fair bit MORE.
Read a book containing the same material, it goes in fully and stays in for
life.
reason number 2
Imagination - horrendous bullshit UK education the last 20 + years .. the
Harry Potty years...speaks of feelings and 'empathy' and all that. Bullshit. We
only find empathy by LIVING through shit with people aside us living through
shit. I developed the true real lifelong empathetic love for black people for
example when in 2003 in a dusty hot gaolhouse for a few months my best
friend of all - whom i respected more than any other person there, became
Orlando from Ghana... an innocent man. Doing four years. With ONLY nobility.
And a sincere and beautiful smile. Always.
But what is imagination for? A few years later as i write about in my pages
in my name, i got laws changed especially a huge total legal cultural change
via the 'child' aspect of secrecy because i alone IMAGINED it should be
different. Even my own side ribbed me for being a fool to think i could.
Because i had read so many great books of literature by 2003 i imagined the
just and rightful out come. And held on no matter what to those outcomes. When
all around me cynically undermined. And i was only able to do that -
because i had developed a good imagination, via literature. i am nothing
special and had an extremely challenged moral compass in my teens and 20s,
especially by the man from Morgan Stanley, who adopted me later on... and
seemed to think it was good to train a man in his mid 20s to be a fraudster....
this i only figured last year.
But then yesterday a third reason maybe most important of all came out of
the blue crystal clear.
Of course.
starting mid 20s with everything Thomas Hardy ever wrote, and having
exhausted him, on to George Elliot...
Through eventually Edith Wharton, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgenia_Ginzburg who
taught me something to this day is my mantra number 2
And others...all Perriam, all Wolfe (overrated just as Wuthering
Heights is) , all RACHEL CUSK! superhero .... and in the last 5
years in fact ALL my favourite books except for Man Called Ove have been by
women - Faith Bleasdale Deranged Marriage - so wise, All early Wendy
Perriam is extraordinarily brave and knocks pathetic Ian McKewan off his
perch...then we have Mars Room - best book this century, For The Love of a Son
- taught me everything i need to know of true sad Islam stuff and their
men, and of late even the astonishing satire of How To Kill Your Family...
BETTER FULL LIST TO COME VERY SOON.
That must not include Wuthering Heights and Jane Austen because, sorry, we
have Mary's Frankenstein which clearly is one of the greatest books ever about
humans always picking on someone not quite as their in group is...
And the radio 4 dramatisation 12ish years ago of her magnificent book simply
was The Enlightenment drip dripping into my ears one evening when i had dozed
off in a caravan living awwfff grid...in minus 20.... cos all the Guardian
Reading tourists bought all the homes in the Hay on Wye region for their
second homes...or third...whilst no doubt over coffee and croissants in a cafe
in that awful Theme Park (more EXPENSIVE women’s clothes shops than bookshops
by far as of 12 years ago) saying " ohhh Henry did you see this article
all the poor folk of The Marches can no longer afford houses now the Londoners
bought them all ...how terrible for them... oh yes so what time is
our appointment at the agent's...and i do wish Kew Gardens would hurry up
and renew my car parking pass so i can do my morning yoga photo shoot and
keep up with the best lookin’ insta influencers ...amazing what that new
photoshopping program can do nowadays .."
The two aforementioned disaster turnings in fiction - Cathy defines herself
by a truly mad man..lost to the drink wethinks too.... who doesnt read
good books and just cares about looking like George Clooney..
it is not good to define yourself by, or die for ....a man... ever....And
this picture in Wuthering Heights is not reality. I am quite sure the great
majority of the non serf class even 175 years ago had ways of being just as
powerful as their male helpmeets... rewriting history is never a
good idea.
and frankly ditto in most of absurd Jane..
whereas George Elliot and to some extent Hardy far far more had their
women not goin nuts just cos of some family feud over money or the latest style
n expensive sexy mans boots.. and being largely women one could look up to and
certainly empathise with in intelligent ways ...as ones equal. specially
Hardy's Bathsheba... fucks up...as we all do... then she recognises a REAL man
with values...and they live happily ever after...sorry ..thats he most pro
woman sane book maybe ever..
At closing the last page of a great book by a woman, one is exactly equally
taken on a great journey as when a man with his art does the same. Books are
the great sex politics leveller reminding us it is all bullshit - those sex
politics - and i don’t refer to chopping off penises..i refer to ever
since George Elliot and it matters not what name she had to write in especially
when every fucker knew exactly who she was, women were the exact
equal on man. And deserved exactly equal respect. Fully part of the
Enlightenment and project to generally become modern. Period...or not..
And thus ... books must be above film.
Even if maybe one film did what few others can do, or set out to do, show us
the superb fun of children.
Captain Fantastic.
As enjoying kids for real, is all that matters, ever....all human rights and
modernity should flow from that
And i would like to know a few more films that do the same. Uncynically...
BUT... there is something deeper that LIVES within from item 3.
I have heard nothing but fey rubbish bullshit versions of 'feminism'
the last decade especially. And i listen to many an episode of Woman’s Hour...
and Meghan and search fro her equals elsewhere.
It is all crap. Because all that matters is that if we - everyone, knows
that women are exactly equally able to create the greatest of art/culture via
the greatest of novels, as they have been able to for 200+ years...then they
are exactly equal and are able to do anything a man can do with EXACTLY the
same intelligence and skill.
Axe chopping aside where a woman is said to be able to manage about 90% of a
man's muscle build...
but 90% is just fine..
Thing is also they should be held to 100% of the same standards of propriety
in all walks of life be it false allegations or just sane communication without
claiming false hurt.
THAT is what honouring these equally great writers of the past in act
is. Knowing no more argument. Behave...as they showed us how to...