In Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, the nine-year-old (rather annoying) hero encounters a man who has created a biographical index: tens of thousands of cards, each containing the name of a person, and a single pertinent word:
Henry Kissinger: war!and so on. I can’t decide what my one word would be. Possibly “words”. Or “baffled”. What about yours?
Ornette Coleman: music!
Che Guevara: war!
Jeff Bezos: money!
Philip Guston: art!
For me, either "ideas" or "conversations".
ReplyDeleteMine would be "twat". Or am I being conceited?
ReplyDeleteOtter
ReplyDeleteGloom
ReplyDelete'Twazmuppet' was invented for moments like this.
ReplyDeleteWould like to say "mellow" but suspect it should be "tired" or more specifically "tired-looking" (if that's allowed).
ReplyDeleteOr "sticky-uppy" he thought, more cheerfully - it's the hair.
And by the way - I can't help it - every time I've come here lately that post title from your archive has caught my eye - "Horny topless smoking Lily Allen..." Maybe you could dispense with content in future and just post carefully selected titles. (Yes, you can include Charlotte Rampling if you must.)
ReplyDeleteMy contribution will be this: Brenda Fricker blocked my bog - or broke my bog. Second option a bit unfair on her.
And the content? Dunno. Tenuous links to celebrity maybe?
Smorgasbord.
ReplyDeleteKitschmensch
ReplyDeleteIt's on my blog profile:
a pretentious poseur who compulsively metamorphoses actual and vicarious sentiments imaginings or experiences and conveniently slaps together a ridiculously simple resolution.
The opposite of "gravitas" whatever that is?
Bemusement!
ReplyDeleteFrustrated.
ReplyDeleteDisappointment.
ReplyDeleteAbyssopelagic.
ReplyDeleteAnd I thought *my* self esteem was low.
ReplyDeleteHere's one to make your self-esteem soar... My one word would simply be: fuck-up! Because I refuse to over-egg the pudding.
ReplyDeleteDaft!
ReplyDeleteI can't assist it - just about every time I've arrive right here recently that article name out of your archive has caught my eye
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone about to get andWOW Gold Eu, does anyone have some good suggestions to get the fast and safeRS Gold, please tell me and thanks a lot who can help me.