Hamish Henderson.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to
> poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Mark Weiss
> Sent: 19 March 2005 04:20
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: The Glasgow Language Wars -- was: Re: Euphemisms ...
>
> Laddies, who the hell is HH?
>
> Mark
>
>
> At 11:10 PM 3/18/2005, you wrote:
> > > Currently I'm more interested in the Glasgow SF nexus -- Chris
> > > Boyce, Iain M. Banks, and Ian McLeod -- than anything in prose
> > > that's coming out of Edinburgh.
> >
> >I place Banks in the Ettrick Shepherd tradition--like the Hogg of 3
> >perils of Man--he's got the most wonderful story-telling touch. In
> >Feersum Enjun, for instance, he can make you care about a mechanical
> >ant, and I mean really CARE. But you wish he could transcend it and
> >punch a punchline that surprises you. He's disappointed me
> every time
> >since the Wasp Factory (telegraphed 90 pages from the end)
> to Look To
> >Windward (the most recent one that I read) where you get to
> know that
> >nothing awful CAN happen, because of the structure of the
> story, so why
> >should you care? Banks' trouble is that he refuses to grow up.
> >Otherwise he would by now be the most majestic, brilliant
> storyteller
> >on the planet. OK, so I'm exaggerating, but I'm disappointed...
> >
> >And Banks is a Fifer, what does that have to do with Glesga?
>
>
|