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Post by fretslider on Sept 21, 2017 6:30:37 GMT -5
Author Martin Amis is doing the media rounds plugging his new book.
I heard him on the radio this mornig and still think him intelligent yet a bit of a bore. Looking through the Guardian I spotted that the Graun has Amis' book as its book of the week. The article is a yeah but no but yeah but no but piece; as the strap line has it: brilliant, except when it’s not.
But a couple of things leapt out....
Amis has lived in London, Uruguay and New York, which makes him a global citizen, or perhaps a “white foreigner” (or is the term for that an “expat”?). So maybe I am not like Amis, after all, because the first and last time I typed the word “foreigner”, my computer tells me, was in 2002. It is, perhaps, a uniquely British word.
Foreigner, a uniquely British word?
Wealthy Foreigner Investors Are Driving Up The Price On Brooklyn Townhouses
www.businessinsider.com/foreigners-up-cost-of-brooklyn-homes-2013-7?IR=T
Extranjero - Spanish
Étranger - French
Straniero - Italian
Ausländer - German
Extraneus - Latin
Foreigner - English
Everybody has a word meaning foreigner, every country has a ministry of foreign affairs. Duh. It's a clear case of angst-ridden, self-loathing.
In 2006 he goes to play poker in Las Vegas, and describes the city as “Un-Islamic”. Surely, you think, the word he is looking for is “anti-Puritan”, but the lack of historical or geographical connection does not stop Amis from dragging the wrong world religion through the fleshpots of the Strip. This is less than brilliant, for being specious, and Amis can be brilliant. He is a great believer in semantic rigour; every sentence snaps with an accuracy that is fresh and fierce.
Surely, you think, the word he is looking for is “anti-Puritan"? Oh dear. I'd say that in the current zeitgeist, Amis' choice of word is absolutely spot on. Many world famous Jihadis are renowned for their 'previous lives' of drink, drugs and fornication.
Amis is fantastic company until he isn’t. The drop can sometimes be severe
www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/21/rub-of-time-martin-amis-review#comment-105543661
The Guardian was a great newspaper until it wasn't.
I heard him on the radio this mornig and still think him intelligent yet a bit of a bore. Looking through the Guardian I spotted that the Graun has Amis' book as its book of the week. The article is a yeah but no but yeah but no but piece; as the strap line has it: brilliant, except when it’s not.
But a couple of things leapt out....
Amis has lived in London, Uruguay and New York, which makes him a global citizen, or perhaps a “white foreigner” (or is the term for that an “expat”?). So maybe I am not like Amis, after all, because the first and last time I typed the word “foreigner”, my computer tells me, was in 2002. It is, perhaps, a uniquely British word.
Foreigner, a uniquely British word?
Wealthy Foreigner Investors Are Driving Up The Price On Brooklyn Townhouses
www.businessinsider.com/foreigners-up-cost-of-brooklyn-homes-2013-7?IR=T
Extranjero - Spanish
Étranger - French
Straniero - Italian
Ausländer - German
Extraneus - Latin
Foreigner - English
Everybody has a word meaning foreigner, every country has a ministry of foreign affairs. Duh. It's a clear case of angst-ridden, self-loathing.
In 2006 he goes to play poker in Las Vegas, and describes the city as “Un-Islamic”. Surely, you think, the word he is looking for is “anti-Puritan”, but the lack of historical or geographical connection does not stop Amis from dragging the wrong world religion through the fleshpots of the Strip. This is less than brilliant, for being specious, and Amis can be brilliant. He is a great believer in semantic rigour; every sentence snaps with an accuracy that is fresh and fierce.
Surely, you think, the word he is looking for is “anti-Puritan"? Oh dear. I'd say that in the current zeitgeist, Amis' choice of word is absolutely spot on. Many world famous Jihadis are renowned for their 'previous lives' of drink, drugs and fornication.
Amis is fantastic company until he isn’t. The drop can sometimes be severe
www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/21/rub-of-time-martin-amis-review#comment-105543661
The Guardian was a great newspaper until it wasn't.
