YA Guardian Opinion Piece

September 19, 2001 12:21 AM

YA Guardian Opinion Piece It's a worrying day for me when I agree with Martin Amis. I particularly like the reference at the end to "species-conciousness". Do you have "species-consciousness"?
posted by i_am_joe's_spleen (9 comments total)

repost (yesterday)
posted by sylloge at 12:36 AM on September 19, 2001

Thinking of the victims, the perpetrators, and the near future, I felt species grief, then species shame, then species fear.

Reading this line I felt species sickness. It felt like the uneasiness associated with paying to see "Species".

"I've highlighted all the words you won't find in any dictionary" -- Wally, from Dilbert.
posted by krisjohn at 12:37 AM on September 19, 2001

Duplicate post.
posted by aaron at 12:38 AM on September 19, 2001

Crap.

<shame>hangs head<shame>

It's so hard to keep up with the flow; ironic really.
posted by i_am_joe's_spleen at 1:02 AM on September 19, 2001

Ha ha, Aaron. Double posted double post notification. I think that works like jinxing ...
posted by sylloge at 1:14 AM on September 19, 2001

Does that mean that neither of you may post until someone types your names?
posted by Optamystic at 2:04 AM on September 19, 2001

If only.
posted by krisjohn at 3:40 AM on September 19, 2001

> If only.

Heh.
posted by pracowity at 3:57 AM on September 19, 2001

Not sure why you would "disagree" with a novelist unless you mean when he writes non-fiction. In any case, see yestrdays' NY Times Science Section for Altrusim, that is at its best in our species...perhps then you will know what Amis refers to.
posted by Postroad at 4:35 AM on September 19, 2001