tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15916138.post6453194044607403313..comments2023-09-25T05:45:41.437-07:00Comments on The Art of Fiction: More Ballard than Orwell, our Weird Country nailed by Danny BoyleUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15916138.post-55069296273351662012012-07-30T15:44:08.462-07:002012-07-30T15:44:08.462-07:00You're right.
In this culture, the elephant i...You're right.<br /><br />In this culture, the elephant in the room is greedy corporations, and any historical, political, or public discourse that doesn't mention this is being dishonest.Shelleyhttp://dustbowlpoetry.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15916138.post-57902600260304130502012-07-28T05:03:44.923-07:002012-07-28T05:03:44.923-07:00Surely Mr Bean isn’t the most famous (fictional) B...Surely Mr Bean isn’t the most famous (fictional) Briton in the world? Bond must trump him purely through longevity. Although Harry Potter has probably ousted him by now. I enjoyed the show. We watched it all too which we had not planned to do. It was so different from the Beijing Olympics. It really was organised chaos. My personal favourite bit was the Sex Pistols section. I kept waiting for Pink Floyd in the potted history of British music and felt insulted that they were excluded but, as you say, they well and truly made up for that at the end. And as for all those countries. Seriously they were making up some of them. Geography was never my favourite subject but I did used to know my world map. Not so much these days obviously.<br /><br>Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.com