Further to our conversation yesterday about motherhood and how central or not it is to our essential experience, see here
Clearly, it’s written out of a belief that birth and motherhood are fundamental, defining experiences. Now, that’s kind of what I think too. But it’s interesting to see, given the Vendall Clark I’m reading, that other cultures clearly haven’t viewed it that way.
It’s rare that to get a chance to suddenly see the facts of your life as possibly just pre-conceptions.
I’m still plouging through 2666, and still constantly on the verge of giving up on it.
I also confess I’ve started Trollope’s DR THORNE, the third of the Barchester novels. I’ve read the first two I think.
But just for a moment, can we talk about this guy and his book, reviewed in the Guardian. He’s a Nobel winning economist, and writing about the financial crisis. What I find hilarious in his analysis is the part where he says that those people doing most of the financial bungling were “third rate graduates from first rate universities.” I think that is SO TRUE. Honestly, my recollection of those doing Economics at my university were not that they were the largest brains I knew on campus – just that they were the people most interested in make money. Is it any surprise at all it’s all gone totallly tits up? Geez.
Here’s the link http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/30/freefall-global-economy-joseph-stiglitz
