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C C Offline Jan 11, 2024 07:42 AM
(Jan 9, 2024 02:05 PM)geordief Wrote: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0h1n08v

Hanif Kureishi on living life with no use of the hands or legs as of the Christmas before last.

"You realise quite quickly that your body doesn’t belong to you any more ... that you are changed, washed, poked and prodded by nurses and doctors, random people all the time. You give up any sense of privacy: of your body, of your mind, of your soul, of anything about you … it’s completely eradicated."

[...] “I had to find a completely new way to write. I can’t sit at my desk for hours … I can’t use my hands, I can’t use a pen. So I just have to say it."

[...] "There are other people - more men actually, I would say, than women - who just can't bear to be in a hospital. And you can see them looking at their watches, thinking: 'How the hell do I get out of here and how soon can I leave?' because it's such an awful thing to see all these people in wheelchairs and crippled people staggering around the corridors, and they all think: 'God, it's gonna be me next.'

"I was like that before, because I spent a lot of my teenage years in hospital with my father, who was very ill for a long time. So I have a horror, phobia of hospitals with reason, and now I live in the hospital. That's an irony for you isn't it?

"But to be struck with an illness like mine, you suddenly see what other people are made of, and who they are, and how generous and kind they can be, or how indifferent they can also be."

[...] "One of the things that happens to you when you're disabled is that you feel less powerful, that you're a sort of impotent god for your kids, but actually in another sense you are more powerful. You're incredibly powerful."

[...] "I was quite a jaunty fellow, I went around the world quite cheerfully, I enjoyed walking about and seeing things and talking.

"The world seems much darker. And you look at all those innocent people strolling around the world looking so healthy and fit and happy and you think: 'You don't know guv, what's coming down the road.'

"And that's a very cruel and cynical way of seeing things, but you've gone through a door when you have an accident in the way that I had an accident.

"But in a sense I feel that I'm much closer to reality - that, in a way, we're living in some kind of nirvanic miasma until something like this happens."

[...] "One guy fell out of bed and broke his neck. People fall down the stairs. People fall into swimming pools. It's a catalogue of farcical and cruel, contingent, meaningless events.

"There's a guy I was talking to the other day, he was in his garden, he tripped over a rake and broke his neck. He was absolutely outraged by the injustice of what had happened to him.

"It's very common, with these kinds of circumstances, [to feel] that you've been plucked out of the world at random and punished in some kind of Kafkaesque way.

"But then you get a much broader sense that this happens all the time to people."

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geordief Offline Feb 19, 2024 03:42 AM (This post was last modified: Feb 19, 2024 03:55 AM by geordief.)
https://youtu.be/cBzcYKVPnO8?si=PCFHL6qhRV1W57lV

Heard this guy Yoiking on a bbc4 television programme dealing with an ancient half man half lion carved ivory statue found in Germany in 1939 and dating back some 40,000 years.

The Yoiker had nothing to do with the statue.He was just interviewed in order to convey some kind of an idea as to the psychology of the society that would have created this abstract object.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03cjbhc (a radio programme about him)


It was called the Lion Man
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-man
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