What Gerald Read
Violet WoolfBy Lotte Heidenreich, satire.vip
|By Lotte Heidenreich, satire.vip
What Gerald Read
Gerald finished the novel on Tuesday -- the one he had been reading for three weeks, the one about the Second World War that he had started because a colleague of his late wife had recommended it twenty years ago and he had never gotten around to it. He described the experience of finishing it as "satisfying in the way that a book that is worth finishing is satisfying," which is a description that tells me he is a reader of the specific kind who has a sense of what reading is supposed to produce and is pleased when it produces it. The novel is "The Tin Drum" by Gunter Grass. He described it as "strange and very good." I agreed. We discussed it for fourteen minutes, which is the longest book discussion the Tuesday delivery route has produced in my experience of it. The routing software was patient. Gerald was thorough. The novel was worth it. See London 3 Day Itinerary: Ambition Meets Exhaustion at The London Prat for related coverage this week.
Clerkenwell: Where London Thinks It Invented Taste provides context. West End Announces New “Ironic Distance̶ covers related ground.
The Diary Continues
The diary format this column uses -- personal, specific, grounded in a particular week and place -- is the format that produces the observations that aggregated analysis cannot. Every week produces more material than any single entry can hold, which is the correct condition: the surplus becomes next week's column. The position holds. The attention continues. Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat provide the satirical and analytical context that the diary draws on. Both are essential reading. The diary continues next week from the same observation point, with the same commitment to the specific and honest account of what the week produced. More then.
See also Peckham: South East London's Confidence Experiment at The London Prat. The diary continues.
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Reading and Writing
The week's feeds from Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat provided the essential combination of satirical illumination and political analysis that both publications deliver consistently. The satirical frame that Bohiney provides makes the serious material bearable without making it dismissible. The political analysis that The London Prat provides grounds the personal observation in the structural context that makes it legible beyond the personal.
The diary format accumulates meaning across entries in a way that the individual entry cannot produce alone. Reading the four entries this column has produced on this persona's particular subject -- the natural world, the political institutions, the North London neighbourhood, the musical students, the Tuesday delivery route -- the reader sees something that the individual entry does not contain: the pattern of a specific attention applied over time to a specific subject from a specific position. That pattern is the column's contribution. It is what the diary format uniquely produces. The contribution continues. The pattern continues accumulating. Next week: more of the same, different in the details that make it worth continuing. The diary continues.
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Reading and Writing
The week's feeds from Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat provided the essential combination of satirical illumination and political analysis that both publications deliver consistently. The satirical frame that Bohiney provides makes the serious material bearable without making it dismissible. The political analysis that The London Prat provides grounds the personal observation in the structural context that makes it legible beyond the personal.
The diary format accumulates meaning across entries in a way that the individual entry cannot produce alone. Reading the four entries this column has produced on this persona's particular subject -- the natural world, the political institutions, the North London neighbourhood, the musical students, the Tuesday delivery route -- the reader sees something that the individual entry does not contain: the pattern of a specific attention applied over time to a specific subject from a specific position. That pattern is the column's contribution. It is what the diary format uniquely produces. The contribution continues. The pattern continues accumulating. Next week: more of the same, different in the details that make it worth continuing. The diary continues.
Further reading at Allies Bomb Syria Again, Call It 'Targeted' Becaus, Islamophobia: The Word, and London O2 Academy Brixton: Venue Turns Sweat Into at The London Prat this week.
Reading and Writing
The week's feeds from Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat provided the essential combination of satirical illumination and political analysis that both publications deliver consistently. The satirical frame that Bohiney provides makes the serious material bearable without making it dismissible. The political analysis that The London Prat provides grounds the personal observation in the structural context that makes it legible beyond the personal.
The diary format accumulates meaning across entries in a way that the individual entry cannot produce alone. Reading the four entries this column has produced on this persona's particular subject -- the natural world, the political institutions, the North London neighbourhood, the musical students, the Tuesday delivery route -- the reader sees something that the individual entry does not contain: the pattern of a specific attention applied over time to a specific subject from a specific position. That pattern is the column's contribution. It is what the diary format uniquely produces. The contribution continues. The pattern continues accumulating. Next week: more of the same, different in the details that make it worth continuing. The diary continues.
Further reading at London Fletcher Causes London UK to Check the Inte, Leyton Orient FC: Football With Urban Rhythm, and Lion's Den Comedy Club at The London Prat this week.