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Our first post featuring Greywolf (bow wow!), he who barks mad at the Popinjay.
Today he introduces us to “an amusing little piece” at Counterpunchitchens. (“An amusing little piece.” As you can see HWHSETJ has what we can only describe as “a way with words” when discussing the writings of Counterpunchitchens, home of JC, may he apologize in peace.)
Greywolf howls out (arooooo!) his discovery that Amis has joined the march along the bloody trail of the Jingosphere. This man – if you can call him that – is Hitchens’s “only friend.” (Play us the world ’s smallest violin, Popinjay. Or join us again on the Noble Left; there are friends a-plenty to be had here. We await you with our warm, blood-free embrace.)
Yes, Greywolf (ruff!) tells us, in the days of yore Amis and Hitch criticized power (bad power!), while of late they fawn it and stroke it until power (and beautiful money!) washes over them like jizz on a porn star.
Greywolf howls: “Amis has always struck me [strike not Canis Lupus Zionwatchus!] as impressionable and naive on politics [So true, so true! Naive and impressionable are the words of Amis, written betwen the bloody covers of unamusing big novels], so I wonder if Hitchens just bullied and pushed him into the [bloody] warpath?
In their first phone conversation after 9-11, Martin brought up the subject of Blowback and was immediately rebuked by a furious Hitchens who said that he’d be goddamned if he was going to listen to any loose talk about chickens coming home to roost.
We can see it now: Over whiskies (Holy Johnny Walker Black! When is it not over whisky?!) Hitchens berates pathetic and naive and impressionable Amis. “Join us! There is money here! And oil! Luxuriate in it, it can all be yours!” until Amis succumbs (and who, besides our Triumvirate of Watchers, could resist? Long may they guide us) and joins the bloody slog that is the Jingosphere. “Forgive me” Amis moans, “I know not that of which I speak. Blowback and Roosting Chickens… How could I have? I am naive and impresionable. Help me, Hitchens, you’re my only hope.”
“Follow me, Martin! To War!” “Yes, my master.”
Only, as the Trinity has shown us, they don’t go to war, do they? No, they watch from an armchair bath of oil and whisky, and then they don’t even send their sons! Shame on you, Hitchmis, for not sending your sons to die for your bloody oil.
Imagine: if only the Triumvirate, or even One of Them, had been there to take off the mittens and strike noble blows against The Hitch. But alas, Amis was lost to the Dark Side…
Anyway, I’ve never much cared for Martin Amis’s pretentious meanderings [As you can see, Greywolf is nothing if not eloquent and incisive in his literary critiques!], but I’m interested to see what the Brits on this site have to say about him.
And we wouldn’t have been interested, but we heed the world of Canis Lupus. Speak, Brits, and tell us what you know.
Amis? Crap. I said before. Say it again! We don’t read much now either. Books are a load of Establishment crap, and we prefer to get stewed!
They’re there, they’re annoying and talentless, but they’ve become part of some establishment so you cannot get them to go away. That doesn’t mean Greywolf won’t try! The Establishment – don’t get us started. Not only can we not get them to go, they won’t let us go! They sink their Zionist tendrils into us, and preclude any writers or academic from joining, from establishing. Raise your eyebrows, do you? Check your bookstores! Find a writer who doesn’t support the war, every war! And Academia? God Lord, all Zionist Jews and their Republican lapdogs. Show us an academic who is brave enough to cross swords with the Popinjay: you won’t find one. Only the Trinity has taken up the call. Mr. Sonic, break down that establishment wall!
In my life, I have only given up reading two books out of the three I started. Martin’s pretentious “the Information” is one. its still sitting at home with the bookmark on page 81, and there it will remain. Tiresome waste of time, reading.
Arrogant, pompous, dead eyed, lizard faced….his patrician drawl and air of ‘I’ve been to Oxford and you haven’t’ did NOT go down well with the studio audience or those like me who have only seen a university from the wrong side of the lunch counter.
I picked up The War against Cliche because I liked the title. I just got the feeling that the whole purpose of every essay was to prove to himself and everyone else how intelligent he is, and I don’t need to feel bad about myself anymore. Sonic, tell me I’m OK.
Mark G on the mic: It’s more an ‘internationalist’ novel or at most a Jewish-American novel. I hope I don’t sound anti-Semitic, but Jews and Jewish culture make up a very very small percentage of the American population and life. To put it another way, as an American, I did not personally identify with the novel.
Never qualify, Mark G! Ask instead why do They call every reflection on the Jewish complete control of American culture, out of all proportion to their percentage of the population and life of average Americans, antisemitic? They never say “racist” when we point out that blacks make up a very, very small percentage of the American population and life, but have near complete control over our “pop” culture! Hippity Hoppity here, there, and everywhere, and who can relate to Richard Wright, Bill Cosby, or, God help us, Toni Morrison?
You speak the truth, Mark G, and He Who Has a Sharp Eye for Things Jewish sees all.
I am not trying to say I am more intellectual than Martin Amis but I have a distaste for one of his books. This distaste grows into a wider one for Amis himself. Indeed the horrorism of Amis is both tastless and tastes bad, very bad.
I’ve never claimed to be as smart as Amis pretends to be. You don’t have to be an intellectual per se to be able to distinguish btw bogus displays of intellect and the real thing.
And thus did the Disciples of the Triumvirate destroy completely the reputations of Amis and Hitchens. Onward, watchers, to victory!
My wolf meat is to do the will of Aaronovitch Watch that sent me, and to finish his work.
“And thus did the Disciples of the Triumvirate destroy completely the reputations of Amis and Hitchens.”
Spot on! Their criticism of Hitchens and others are really pathetic.
You, in your anonymity, say “spot on,” and then say “pathetic.”
If that was meant to be an attack, just remember that you cannot comprehend the intellect of the the Trinity, or even the Disciples. Stick with Hitchmis.
If you mean you agree with their assessment, please use a more Inovative Syntax, for clarity.