Like Sinclair, I've become fascinated by that barrier material they
use around building sites.
It's a permeable and provisional, revealing as it tries to conceal.
Roger
P.S I realise that Sinclair != MacEwan. Bah. I'll learn not post on
the run one of these days.
On 8/22/08, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks for that terrific - a big picture
> P
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Judy Prince
> Sent: 22 August 2008 11:53
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: the olympics scam
>
> Brilliant. Iain Sinclair.
> An excerpt:
> The scam of scams was always the Olympics: Berlin in 1936 to Beijing in
> 2008. Engines of regeneration. Orgies of lachrymose nationalism. War by
> other means. Warrior-athletes watched, from behind dark glasses, by men in
> suits and uniforms. The pharmaceutical frontline. Rogue Californian chemists
> running their eye-popping, vein-clustered, vest-stripping robots against
> degendered state laboratory freaks. Bearded ladies and teenage girls who
> never have periods. Medals returned by disgraced drug cheats to be passed on
> to others who weren't caught, that time. The Millennium Dome fiasco was a
> low-rent rehearsal. The holy grail for blue-sky thinkers was the
> sport-transcends-politics Olympiad, the five-hooped golden handcuffs, the
> smoke rings behind which deals could be done for casinos and malls: with
> corporate sponsorship, flag-waving and infinitely elastic budgets (any
> challenge an act of naysaying treason).
>
> 2008/8/22 Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n12/sinc01_.html
> >
> > The razing of East London by Ian MacEwan.
> >
> > --
> > My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
> > "I began to warm and chill
> > to objects and their fields"
> > Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
> >
>
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My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
"I began to warm and chill
to objects and their fields"
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
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