Accolade for Ali Smith – bears repeating
‘Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be reskinned?’ she asked in a 2003 interview with Jeanette Winterson.
The ‘she’ mentioned is one Ali Smith, novelist extraordinaire. Ali Smith was born the year after me, and it is always interesting reading a contemporaries view of the human experience. Reading Ali Smith is like submerging in a more real world than the one I live in. This is why reading excites me so much when the writing is so good you want to be there. Or aroundabouts, not necessarily in the middle of. But the things she writes speak more articulately to me than the world around me does. Increasingly I find myself an uncomfortable fit in a perplexing world of paradoxes. It is a world where we know more about the laws governing the universe than we have ever known before, and…
View original post 423 more words
moving in time 