Gilbert Adair
Gilbert Adair
Gilbert Adair was a Scottish novelist, poet, film critic and journalist. He was critically most famous for the "fiendish" translation of Georges Perec's postmodern novel A Void, in which the letter e is not used, but was more widely known for the films adapted from his novels, including Love and Death on Long Islandand The Dreamers...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth29 December 1944
blessed feet giving
The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of God's checks has bounced.
cancer fact however
We ''need'' cancer because, by the very fact of its insurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.
past principles batteries
Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.
isms politics ends
All isms end in fascism.
new-york space rude
In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame -- not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements . Even the most chronically dispossessed appear prepared to endorse the legitimacy of the ''haves.
taste acquired-taste
The only tastes worth having are acquired tastes.
love-is love-is-blind blind
Love is blind but not deaf.
sleep cat self
There is fire and fire: The fire that burns and the fire that gives warmth, a fire that sets a forest ablaze and the fire that puts a cat to sleep. So is it with self-love. The member that once seemed one of the wonders of the world soon becomes as homely as an old slipper. Mathew and himself gradually ceased to excite each other.
cancer disease facts
We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.