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The Bronze Age Man of Jodrell Bank

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Rhiannon R
Rhiannon May 21, 2014 14:11:40
Replying to moss

oooh thank you!! how superb. Thank you, Moss.

I was just reading something about his work the other day
http://awfullybigblogadventure.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/why-colin-cant-remember-reflections-on.html

" it is the landscape itself, its history and prehistory, that furnishes the element of wonder [to his work] that [his] legendary borrowings supplied before"
and
"in those countries where .. order is not breaking down - we collude in the communal self-deception that we have everything under control, that it’s all sorted, pretty much. What Garner reminds us, as writers, is that our task is to open a crack in the walls of that complacency, and let in the light of wonder."

M moss
moss May 22, 2014 07:27:27
Replying to Rhiannon

Rhiannon wrote:
oooh thank you!! how superb. Thank you, Moss.

I was just reading something about his work the other day
http://awfullybigblogadventure.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/why-colin-cant-remember-reflections-on.html

" it is the landscape itself, its history and prehistory, that furnishes the element of wonder [to his work] that [his] legendary borrowings supplied before"
and
"in those countries where .. order is not breaking down - we collude in the communal self-deception that we have everything under control, that it’s all sorted, pretty much. What Garner reminds us, as writers, is that our task is to open a crack in the walls of that complacency, and let in the light of wonder."

Knew you would enjoy it Rhiannon, Garner is so totally at one with his environment, even the way he arrives at a story. The blogger, John Ward is perfectly right, 'Boneland' walks away from the children and the past, it is almost disjointed. But what of course it captures, is the parallel world of the modern Jodrell Bank and the Neolithic/Bronze Age world stargazing and trying to make sense of our environment.....

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