Comments on: KC: 'deeply silly, patronising' http://www.ballardian.com/kc-deeply-silly-patronising Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:59:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: PhilK http://www.ballardian.com/kc-deeply-silly-patronising/comment-page-1#comment-637 PhilK Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:54:41 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/kc-deeply-silly-patronising/#comment-637 The funny thing about Kingdom Come is that not just Pearson is a Ballard proxy. EVERY character with a speaking role is a Ballard proxy. His refusal (inability?) to create anything resembling a rounded character is what gives his novels their unreal (rather than surreal) quality. The funny thing about Kingdom Come is that not just Pearson is a Ballard proxy. EVERY character with a speaking role is a Ballard proxy.

His refusal (inability?) to create anything resembling a rounded character is what gives his novels their unreal (rather than surreal) quality.

]]> By: FJ Torres http://www.ballardian.com/kc-deeply-silly-patronising/comment-page-1#comment-636 FJ Torres Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:15:37 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/kc-deeply-silly-patronising/#comment-636 This is all I can think of when I hear about football. This damn song. 38 by The Revolting Cocks Twenty ninth of May, 1985 A day like everyday 38 38 there were 38 There were 38 38 38 there were 38 There were 38 Use a tape-recorder and remember Who watch, who watches tribes like everywhere Fighting for your pleasure So why do you cry? When it happens everyday 38 38 there were 38 38 38 there were 38 I don´t need amounts of meetings Decisions? conversations To know from worse coming this...You know, to know I don´t need a amounts of meetings You know from worse coming this responsibility 38 38 there were 38 (x3) 38 38 aaah! there were 38 38 38 there were 38 There were 38 38, 38 there were 38 There were 38 38 38 (x3) There were 38 38, 38 there were 38 Don´t be ashamed, don´t be ashamed you´re living in this world 38 38 there were 38 It happens everywhere Actually it was 39 who died.... 1985: Fans die in Heysel rioting http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/29/newsid_2733000/2733979.stm This is all I can think of when I hear about football. This damn song.

38
by The Revolting Cocks

Twenty ninth of May, 1985
A day like everyday
38 38 there were 38
There were 38
38 38 there were 38
There were 38

Use a tape-recorder and remember
Who watch, who watches
tribes like everywhere
Fighting for your pleasure
So why do you cry?
When it happens everyday

38 38 there were 38
38 38 there were 38

I don´t need amounts of meetings
Decisions? conversations
To know from worse coming this…You know, to know
I don´t need a amounts of meetings
You know from worse coming this responsibility

38 38 there were 38 (x3)
38 38 aaah! there were 38
38 38 there were 38
There were 38
38, 38 there were 38
There were 38

38 38 (x3)
There were 38
38, 38 there were 38
Don´t be ashamed, don´t be ashamed
you´re living in this world
38 38 there were 38
It happens everywhere

Actually it was 39 who died….
1985: Fans die in Heysel rioting
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/29/newsid_2733000/2733979.stm

]]> By: Anthony Osborne http://www.ballardian.com/kc-deeply-silly-patronising/comment-page-1#comment-635 Anthony Osborne Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:01:10 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/kc-deeply-silly-patronising/#comment-635 Liddle ... deeply silly and patronising ... absolutely. Isn't he one of those rent-a-quote pundits always ready with a deeply offensive but oh-so-ironic quote? One of these idiots deeply implicated in the tabloid world view? Since Ballard doesn't profess to be writing realist fiction, the 'social novel', surely such criticism irrelevant? Liddle … deeply silly and patronising … absolutely. Isn’t he one of those rent-a-quote pundits always ready with a deeply offensive but oh-so-ironic quote?
One of these idiots deeply implicated in the tabloid world view?
Since Ballard doesn’t profess to be writing realist fiction, the ‘social novel’, surely such criticism irrelevant?

]]> By: Daniel http://www.ballardian.com/kc-deeply-silly-patronising/comment-page-1#comment-634 Daniel Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:58:45 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/kc-deeply-silly-patronising/#comment-634 Rod Liddle is a deeply silly and patronising journalist, but he does at least encapsulate the contempt and lack of understanding with which traditional working-class pastimes, like reading and writing, are viewed by the mediocracy and their paymasters. Rod Liddle is a deeply silly and patronising journalist, but he does at least encapsulate the contempt and lack of understanding with which traditional working-class pastimes, like reading and writing, are viewed by the mediocracy and their paymasters.

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