In the latest instalment of our Through The Looking Glass series John Waters introduces the episode with a short reading from his new book The Abolition of Reality which then leads into our discussion on the uniqueness of the Irish experience and the storms it faces in a mechanistic and technological driven world.
I'm not a great reader these days, I'm too distracted. I prefer learning aurally and from podcasts such as these. I remember the first book I was able to read on my own. It was a Rupert annual. It had pictures like a comic and writing underneath. I was sick and my mother had lit a fire in the bedroom. I even remember the position of the bed in the room. It was such a thrill. I was being raised in Irish and in a full Gaelic school, so learning to read in English was difficult. It was a long time ago in the fifties. Maybe I was about five years old. I'll probably wrap Johns book up carefully (as he suggestetd) and hide it before I pass away
I remember Rupert the Bear books. They terrified me because of the animal heads on child bodies. The stilted rhymes underneath the pictures didn't help. Were they trapped that way, or would they ever get back to normal? Was the rhymester some mocking demon?
The best way to read John's books is to imagine he is speaking. It is not formal, written, prose. It is exploratory, almost tentative. He is uncovering the realities we cannot see, or refuse to see. His words carefully uncover what is hidden, like the brush of an archaeologist on some artifact whose shape is obscured by clay. It is probably the only way this can be done. It is amazing just how much of reality is hidden until some driven soul takes the trouble to reveal it.
Thank you for your advice. I like the Rupert book because it was the first one I was able to read and I read it over and over. Comics were precious back then and to have the hardback book was great
Great conversation, setting and video .. thank you Gerry and John and Co . I often thought I'd love to have a chat with some of them top of the combine folks too, like John was saying ...but I can't even seem to have a productive chat with my own family.. every person probably has their own magic passwords ..I wonder if an AI could find them🤔 😅.
Just one question to John Waters, I asked him several times.. But he never answers.. John, I always loved you as a writer, but started falling out of love .. Why? Because of how you never answer questions about Zionism and the Genocide on the Palestinians..
Now's your big chance to answer.. If not, again.. I will never ever listen to anything you write or say.. I know you don't care, also not about all those dead babies and women, hospital workers, teachers etc... but I do. I chose to defend Humanity, Not Psychopaths who love killing..
I'm not a great reader these days, I'm too distracted. I prefer learning aurally and from podcasts such as these. I remember the first book I was able to read on my own. It was a Rupert annual. It had pictures like a comic and writing underneath. I was sick and my mother had lit a fire in the bedroom. I even remember the position of the bed in the room. It was such a thrill. I was being raised in Irish and in a full Gaelic school, so learning to read in English was difficult. It was a long time ago in the fifties. Maybe I was about five years old. I'll probably wrap Johns book up carefully (as he suggestetd) and hide it before I pass away
I remember Rupert the Bear books. They terrified me because of the animal heads on child bodies. The stilted rhymes underneath the pictures didn't help. Were they trapped that way, or would they ever get back to normal? Was the rhymester some mocking demon?
The best way to read John's books is to imagine he is speaking. It is not formal, written, prose. It is exploratory, almost tentative. He is uncovering the realities we cannot see, or refuse to see. His words carefully uncover what is hidden, like the brush of an archaeologist on some artifact whose shape is obscured by clay. It is probably the only way this can be done. It is amazing just how much of reality is hidden until some driven soul takes the trouble to reveal it.
Thank you for your advice. I like the Rupert book because it was the first one I was able to read and I read it over and over. Comics were precious back then and to have the hardback book was great
Great conversation, setting and video .. thank you Gerry and John and Co . I often thought I'd love to have a chat with some of them top of the combine folks too, like John was saying ...but I can't even seem to have a productive chat with my own family.. every person probably has their own magic passwords ..I wonder if an AI could find them🤔 😅.
Just one question to John Waters, I asked him several times.. But he never answers.. John, I always loved you as a writer, but started falling out of love .. Why? Because of how you never answer questions about Zionism and the Genocide on the Palestinians..
Now's your big chance to answer.. If not, again.. I will never ever listen to anything you write or say.. I know you don't care, also not about all those dead babies and women, hospital workers, teachers etc... but I do. I chose to defend Humanity, Not Psychopaths who love killing..
John writes about Ireland and Irish matters. I think he sometimes touches upon psychopaths
Jesus that's like a gun to the head, we have ways of making you talk. I know the answer and I never asked him.
Perhaps John is more concerned about the genocide on his own doorstep ATM
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