If I say I loved that you received a string of abusive emails from a professor at Cornell University, I trust you'll understand my sentiments - definitely a tribute to your creativity, David.
But the engines of modernity are surely forged in the furnace of colonialism? The act of enclosing, the uncommoning of the commons, the concurrent rise of the individual and the corporation, an ancient malaise in the cloak of progress? All at the same time the slow erasure of a shared history. For all these reasons, I feel Hookland County is *essential*.
“People say history is history but do not understand that it’s the reality of the present moment”
Remember Mao when asked about the French Revolution? Modernism was also forged in Çatalhöyük, Kish, Lagash and Uruk et al. There is no temporal bucolic. There is no Golden Age. There is no return, only a holding to essential aspects that connect us across time.
If I say I loved that you received a string of abusive emails from a professor at Cornell University, I trust you'll understand my sentiments - definitely a tribute to your creativity, David.
Thank you Mick. Kind of you to say.
"The Speed of Green Gods" is a wonderful piece. You are so adept at breathing life into uncanny things.
Thank you Len. I am not clever enough to be a poet, so that is a deeply kind comment.
Joyful and instead always. Very grateful for what you do. Hookland is the finest respite from today’s world I can think of
Thank you. The county has always aimed to the comfort of old fears against new terrors, the balm of ghost soil.
“the comfort of old fears against new terrors”
Lovely turn of phrase. Are the new terrors the old fears coming home to roost?
We live in such a world that new terrors can come from the engines of modernity.
But the engines of modernity are surely forged in the furnace of colonialism? The act of enclosing, the uncommoning of the commons, the concurrent rise of the individual and the corporation, an ancient malaise in the cloak of progress? All at the same time the slow erasure of a shared history. For all these reasons, I feel Hookland County is *essential*.
“People say history is history but do not understand that it’s the reality of the present moment”
JoDe Goudy
I may be going a bit far…
Remember Mao when asked about the French Revolution? Modernism was also forged in Çatalhöyük, Kish, Lagash and Uruk et al. There is no temporal bucolic. There is no Golden Age. There is no return, only a holding to essential aspects that connect us across time.
Shame about Mysteries Beyond Sherlock. It would a great companion piece to In Search Of.
A superior piece in my opinion.
No, because they already featured in two puppet-based shows the channel had broadcast.
Did Hookland Associated Television ever consider commissioning a cartoon about the antlered dormice?