Tsunami Days
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Tsunami Days

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Tsunami Days

About this book

"We need more writers with bite. We have lived in the flatlands too long, " writes John Barnie in one of his 'observations' ('Art in the Flatlands'). And bite he delivers.
Ranging across politics, history, culture, ecological disaster, the meaning of truth, poetry, what we mean by identity and more… Barnie shares a window onto the world that is both erudite and particular. Leaning towards pessimism in a darkening world, these observations are often provocative, not from any bullish desire to antagonise, but as the result of mining a rationalist line of thought with an honesty and consistency that is applied as much to the author as to his subjects. There is a clarity here that some may find uncomfortable, but the aim is always dialogue above agreement; intellectual engagement above cheap solutions and sentimentality.
Barnie asks us to think, consider and dig deeper, but most of all he asks that we "…live richly among our secondary self-created meanings, while recognising them for what they are. To face without flinching the nullity of the great void." ('Varieties of Meaning')
Tsunami Days is a vital collection of essays for those prepared to engage with its unflinching observations.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. By the same author
  6. Epigram
  7. Half Title
  8. Foreword
  9. Delight in Killing
  10. Against Great Men
  11. The Elephant in the Room
  12. Canute the Environmentalist
  13. The Pattern in the Leaf
  14. What Do We Really Feel About Nature?
  15. A New Dark Age
  16. Lying in Politics
  17. The Attraction of War
  18. The Problem of Religion
  19. Poetry on Trial
  20. Contempt for Truth
  21. Would-Be Dictators
  22. Revolution’s Allure
  23. Weepy Culture
  24. Religion of Blood and Delusion
  25. Centres and Peripheries
  26. Democracy Betrayed
  27. Tribulations of a Meat-Eater
  28. Footprints in the Snow
  29. The White Man as Burden
  30. Where Do We Go Next?
  31. Escape into Technology
  32. Truth v. ‘Truth’
  33. Art in the Flatlands
  34. The Masters of Infinity
  35. Poetry as Fly-Fishing
  36. Where Is My Nation?
  37. The Relentless Cycle
  38. Money and Power
  39. Varieties of Meaning
  40. Sauve Qui Peut
  41. Embracing Delusions
  42. Collapse
  43. The False Shepherd
  44. Down Among the Struldbrugs
  45. The War-Making Species
  46. No Bribes Here
  47. Facing the Bottleneck
  48. Cinema of Dreams
  49. The Island
  50. Dance of the Mayflies
  51. Life in New Eden
  52. Mr Zimmerman and Mr Jones
  53. White Power/White Justice
  54. Defeat and Lies
  55. The Flaw
  56. Learning from Conrad
  57. The Meaning of a Book
  58. The Freedom of Being Someone Else
  59. The Monk and the Rag-and-Bone Man
  60. Negative Capability
  61. Appropriate Anger
  62. Varieties of Criticism
  63. Cloud Shadows
  64. Men of Destiny
  65. The Twisted Tree
  66. On the Brink
  67. The Real Rogue State
  68. War Crimes and Lies
  69. What is a War Crime?
  70. Near the Limits
  71. What Should the Study of Literature Mean?
  72. Approaching the Bottleneck
  73. Strangers
  74. The Future is Mega
  75. A Brief History of Reading
  76. Don’t Be Fooled
  77. Afterword