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BTW, one of the surprising things I learnt from that podcast is that de Beauvoir's original UK translator was Patrick O'Brian, best known for The master and Commander series of naval histories featuring the characters of Aubrey and Maturin
Just finished reading Hari Kunzru's "White Tears", his ghost story set around two budding musician/producers who hear an old blues song in a park, when doing field recordings, find a guitar track to back it, and put it out only to find that it seems to have been released as a record years ago and lots of weird, violent shit starts happening around them and to them.
It's neat, always interesting, I didn't realise I was going to be kitted out for a trip into the weird, as this seems to be one of his three colours trilogy "Red pill" and the nearly out in paperback "Blue ruin" , which all seem to be vaguely politically oriented. However Kunzru still manages to rope in the racist colonization of blues music by clue-less white frat boys, of authenticity (many of the blues men were playing a role for the public "Blind" this and that when fully sighted, and some were even white session musicians), or previous ownership and privilege. So yeah a solid thought provoking brew. Kunzru though kind of misses out on making it a truly great "weird" story by over-explaining everything at the end. The best weird stories leave liminal gaps and lacuna for the darkness and imagination to occupy. Less is always more.
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Acts of Minor Dissent
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