A taster:
As plant cover diminishes and forests peter out the further north you go, buildings become lower and settlements more scattered. Is this a general rule? Perhaps. Perhaps not. What business is it of mine?
I must wait until tomorrow to continue my journey, and have nothing better to do than swell on such truths.
Here in [...]
1. Why do you blog?
For me, blogging is democratic journalism. You get your own little corner of the cyber universe, which is the equivalent of the comment pieces in the Sunday supplements. Okay, you’ll never reach the educated masses like Julie Birchill or Jon Ronson, but if you are erudite, eloquent or witty [...]
Marie Darrieussecq’s White opens as Pete Tomson, a heating engineer, in a plane and Edmée Blanco, a telecommunications engineer, in an old converted tug, arrive at the South Pole to help construct a permanent European base at the heart of Antarctica. The time is the near future.
Edmée’s journey, especially, reads like the description of a [...]
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