[lbo-talk] Arundhati Roy

[shag carpet bomb]

At 04:37 PM 6/6/2011, // ravi wrote:
>On Jun 5, 2011, at 5:58 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
> >
> > I think it's because she encourages people to see her as the romantic 
> voice of the East, here to be wise and thoughtful and colorful in her 
> expressions and analogies. Come on Ravi! It's sooooo cute that this nice, 
> petite, Indian lady has wise, old answers and makes silly analogies about 
> thin milk and heavy cream. I mean, isn't that what people from the East 
> are ALLLLLLLLLLLLL about? They bring wisdom to poor Westerners who are 
> incapable of wisdom and they do so in such cutesy, folksy ways with the 
> inept analogies that you can't help but chuckle at. Western journalists 
> eat that shit up, especially when they get to write about her household 
> help serving up mangoes while she raps on about her dream of eating 
> mangoes in the moonlight. I mean, she says shit like that and you know it 
> just has to be said for the audience who expect people from India to be 
> all magical, irrational, and romantic like that.
> >
>
>:-)
>
>Dissenting Wren says it's all about the envy. So we should run with that, 
>I think, and get on this racket! I will work up something about the 
>fragrant splendour of papayas in heat and the elusive hooded mongoose of 
>Mannargudi. You guys figure out a way to get me on PBS.
>
>         —ravi
>
>
>Warning, even my mother wouldn't call me pretty, so you will have to work 
>without that!

awww. But go with the gawky Indian boyish charm thing. Come 'on. Westerners 
eat that stuff up, too! Charlie Rose is waiting!

Meanwhile, I found Wren's claims irritating. Firstly, zero clue about her 
book deal. My general assumption about most authors is they generally don't 
make squat, comparatively, so why would I have thought that about her. 
Secondly, why is it that, to be on the Left, we all have to want to be 
people who write for a living and lead the masses with our glorious ideas? 
Some of could not care less about that sort of thing. And maybe it's 
because I was once pretty poor, but (*goat sacrifice follows*), I'm living 
a damn happy life right now. Why spoil that with celebrity or servants. 
Maybe I'd like to afford Misook - probably could if I decided to give up 
cycling - but I'm happier 'n' a pig 'n' shit with Jones NY. Waaaaaaaaaay 
better than Walmart.

Gah! Who would want that? Well, some people do, but not me and I suspect 
not ravi. I like what I do for a living. Life is fucking good man. Why is 
it that, to be on the left, we are all aspring to be great writers. What is 
IT with this silly assumption that the only life worth living is one where 
you write all day or yammer on in front of an audience? WTF?

ooops. gotta go. Gonna have to go rope that goat and shove it off a cliff.

shag


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