David Lodge
David Lodge
David John Lodge CBEis an English author and literary critic born in London...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth28 January 1935
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barrier best built coming crude electric fish great invader irony motivation passed proposed river round time
The electric barrier is crude but it's the best thing we have now. The irony is the barrier was first proposed to keep round gobies (another fish invader in the Great Lakes) from colonizing the Mississippi River watershed, but by the time the barrier was built they had already passed it. Now the motivation is to keep the carp from coming from the other direction.
across damages far great harm indeed lakes pipes plants power reaching rivers species spread threat
The damages are far reaching - from the shoreline, to the pipes of power plants and municipal waterworks, to the many other lakes and rivers that are under threat and indeed under harm as zebra mussels and many other species spread from the Great Lakes across the continent.
inherently species wrong
These species are not inherently bad. They're just in the wrong place.
life mostly
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.
constantly difference funny god playing readers thoughtful writer writers
She was a very funny writer but also a very thoughtful one. She made writers think and she made readers think. She was constantly playing on the difference between God and the writer.
bring bunch great might species
We might have been able to say 20 years ago that it was unanticipated consequence, but we know now that a shipload could bring in a bunch of invasive species into the Great Lakes.
should backwards
Life, after all, should go forwards, not backwards.
desire habit
Perhaps that's what we're all looking for - desire undiluted by habit.
faces scene these-days
It's the only thing that keeps me going these days, travelling. Changes of scene, changes of faces
Every decoding is another encoding.
age modern cathedrals
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
believe epidemics age
Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism, like the flagellantes in the Middle Ages.
information world modern
Information is the religion of the modern world.
horse eye air
whhheeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! The scream of jet engines rises to a crescendo on the runways of the world. Every second, somewhere or other, a plane touches down, with a puff of smoke from scorched tyre rubber, or rises in the air, leaving a smear of black fumes dissolving in its wake. From space, the earth might look to a fanciful eye like a huge carousel, with planes instead of horses spinning round its circumference, up and down, up and down. Whhheeeeeeeeeee!