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Sto caricando le informazioni... A Sideways Look at Time (1999)di Jay Griffiths
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Although I have had many lucky wins from the remainders section of book shops, every now and then you come across a book that explains why there IS a remainder section. This book has a simple and interesting core thought - that we live our "time" too fast. But after that thought is described, in the first chapter (or was it the introduction?) there is sadly no development of the idea. What should we do about it? How could we live our times differently - these and many other questions remain unanswered. In trying to get a one paragraph concept stretched to book-length, the author does test some boundaries. I thought that the lament at language loss (fewer languages in the world) was the best. How is this related to living time too fast? And what can we do about it? More unanswered questions. This is a clunker. (Read December 2010)
Much as she may long to opt out, Griffiths is unavoidably a child of our hectic times, and the form and style of her book admit her inability to practise what she preaches. Pip Pip mimics the temporal vices it deplores. Her brain races like Marinetti's hepped-up motor. A brilliant, inventive, and comprehensive masterwork of cultural criticism about spirituality and modern life.
An enthusiastic piece of pop anthropology on the one subject that has ousted sex and money from the top of the obsessions league. Jay Griffiths takes the subject of time in her teeth and chews at it until it's a far more palatable item. Her exploration of the passage of time includes; our obsession with speed, with overtaking; motorways and their link to fascism; war; Mercury (god of flight) and the mythology of time and speed; Diana and Marilyn Monroe, flawed women who, through their violent deaths, have become timeless icons; history and the heritage industry; the meanness of Greenwich Mean Time; the fast language we now have to go with fast food; Aborigine dreamtime; the difference between festivals and pageants; May Day; and the New Year. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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She played with language, while playing with the varying ideas and concepts of time around the world.
It was funny, provocative, and interesting.
I might not always agree, but she collected interesting observations and shared them with creative aplomb. ( )