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The Wind in the Pylons: Adventures of the Mole in Weaselworld: 2
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- The Wind in the Pylons: Adventures of the Mole in Weaselworld: 2
- ISBN
- 9780953685042
- EAN
- 9780953685042
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- The Wind in the Pylons: Adventures of the Mole in Weaselworld: V. 2
- Illustrator
- Judy Hammond
- Item Height
- 180mm
- Publisher
- Hilltop Publishing LTD
- Topic
- Books
- Item Width
- 111mm
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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The targets of Gareth Lovett Jones's excoriating love-letter do not stop at ardently biddable 'Darwinian' politicians, manically hubristic trans-nationals bosses or the bent and temporising scientists who serve them. The Mole's uneasy journey brings him up against many other shining examples of weaseline behaviour, and, as the author says: They are all linked, though I was quite some way into the writing before I knew that for sure. The best I could find to say for the weasels occurs in a little scene, where a group of them are being taken on a guided walk in the Chilterns, and one of the party seems to be experiencing some kind of race memory of a time when they too were a part of nature. As to the main players, every last one of them has lost his respect for nature - his understanding of nature's laws of balance and gradualism. Each animal is seeking to expand his own exclusive territory outwards, and then again outwards, into whatever may be left to colonise. Why are all the characters male? It's not so far from reality, is it? The brute colonising instinct always falls to the male of the species. But there is another reason, because I made a point of respecting the unities of Grahame's book wherever I could and his characters are, of course, to the last speaking part male. This is pastiche, and if pastiche doesn't love what it copies, then it has lost its reader before it starts. In a society where the Bermuda mansion, the yacht and the Ferraris are the highest points of human aspiration, The Wind In The Pylons raises what is surely the most important question of all for our future well-being: how much is 'enough'? Or as the Mole himself puts it with characteristic simplicity a propos the Babylonian displays of wealth he sees and hears about: But does it make you happy? Buried deep in the fabric of The Wind In The Pylons lies the book's most challenging single idea: that economic growth may not be worthy, or even worthwhile, as an end in itself, and that the 'best' of what we have made through it here in Britain is itself a kind of hell. Is there anyone who positively enjoys motorway driving (its relentless grey tedium is unforgettably evoked in the book) or the high-rise workplace? Isn't there something really rather grim about the airless, wall-to-wall carpeted suburban home? The final implication of this book - subversive in the best sense of the word - is that any civilisation genuinely seeking the happiness of its people would be following a wholly different route from that of economic growth before all else, and that 'wealth' defined so narrowly in terms of ownership and consumption is no wealth worth having.
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The Wind in the Pylons: Adventures of the Mole in Weaselworld: V. 2
Illustrator
Judy Hammond
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Paperback
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English
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Books
Publication Year
2005
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256 Pages
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180mm
Item Width
111mm
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