Carla and one of Rushdie's girls ply their craft
Light news day today but the The Daily Mail is entirely justified in devoting an entire editorial to just what an odious snob Salman Rushdie is . I dragged my way through Midnights Children years ago, which I found precious and fussy .If , as AN Wilson says , it is inestimably better than his subsequent efforts, then he has clearly lead a life of evil. It was his involvement in the magnificently self regarding Charter 88 that first made my nostrils twitch. This preposterous collection of luvvies used to meet by Islington Green and bitch about their grants .Even Neil Kinnock pronounced them “ a movement of wankers whiners and whingers." ..and god that name !
It referred to the Czech dissident group Charter 77 , people who suffered imprisonment torture under a really oppressive state . The popular Thatcher government by contrast ignored them and in Mr. Rushdie’s case this may have been a torture in itself .
His reaction to the fatwa was to bravely suck up to them by professing a Damascean conversion even while ungratefully accepting the protection of the country he effects to despise but I have a more serious problem. It is the suspicion I have of any man who squires trophy women about. It looks ridiculous and argues a preening delusional self image .( I do operate a show biz exemption here , it goes with the territory).
I therefore have dark suspicions about Sarkozy . Carla Bruni seems to be universally admired, but I am not in that universe. It was when I realised her singing sounded like a strangled frog with Laryngitis I began to wonder. When I read her boast that she sneaked Dostoyevsky into fashion shoots hidden in Cosmo( so as not to embarrass the other girls ) , my worst fears were confirmed .Dostoyevsky of all writers ,a shorthand for intellectual to the ignorant , who else Carla , Satre , Camus , the full pantheon of adolescent pretension ?
Clearly this insufferable woman has been spouting drivel her entire life under the impression that fascinated men give a sod what nonsense she twitters .Yes I know she has legs on her legs, and cheek bones, and all sorts, but honestly , I could not stand it . By contrast look at the delightful holiday snaps of the Cameron’s the other day . They are about right for each other , she may even be a bit ,on the ordinary side and this argues a proper relationship .Dostoyevski !Yeah I used to hide Kerouac on my Beano Carla you nit.
It referred to the Czech dissident group Charter 77 , people who suffered imprisonment torture under a really oppressive state . The popular Thatcher government by contrast ignored them and in Mr. Rushdie’s case this may have been a torture in itself .
His reaction to the fatwa was to bravely suck up to them by professing a Damascean conversion even while ungratefully accepting the protection of the country he effects to despise but I have a more serious problem. It is the suspicion I have of any man who squires trophy women about. It looks ridiculous and argues a preening delusional self image .( I do operate a show biz exemption here , it goes with the territory).
I therefore have dark suspicions about Sarkozy . Carla Bruni seems to be universally admired, but I am not in that universe. It was when I realised her singing sounded like a strangled frog with Laryngitis I began to wonder. When I read her boast that she sneaked Dostoyevsky into fashion shoots hidden in Cosmo( so as not to embarrass the other girls ) , my worst fears were confirmed .Dostoyevsky of all writers ,a shorthand for intellectual to the ignorant , who else Carla , Satre , Camus , the full pantheon of adolescent pretension ?
Clearly this insufferable woman has been spouting drivel her entire life under the impression that fascinated men give a sod what nonsense she twitters .Yes I know she has legs on her legs, and cheek bones, and all sorts, but honestly , I could not stand it . By contrast look at the delightful holiday snaps of the Cameron’s the other day . They are about right for each other , she may even be a bit ,on the ordinary side and this argues a proper relationship .Dostoyevski !Yeah I used to hide Kerouac on my Beano Carla you nit.
7 comments:
Pseuds corner in Private eye is the only place for Mrs Sarkozy.
I had a stunning actress girlfriend once who was the same. She thought she was brighter than Einstein because everyone listened to her. It all went to her head and she often wondered why things would not work out for her despite the fact she actually did nothing.
She was/is a wonder really.
Pseuds corner in Private eye
...was where the quote a was taken from.
Ha! I used to hide Tom Sharpe inside Marxism Today, but rather gave the game away by guffawing uncontrollably in a way that even Eric Frogspawn could not reasonably induce in a sane person ...
.. ...snicker snicker R..( or Marathon marathon as all change is bad)
I too have posted on Salmon Rushdie - pop by my place and have a look?
Will do
Philipa, can any one look?
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