Grayson Perry
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I appreciate that the whole point of this blogging schtick is being able to express an instantaneous reaction, beating the sluggish pants off of that anachronistic newspaper which keeps time to the creaking of those presses, powered by the sweat of the brow of Oliver Twist-like lads. But here at LiS we (or I, anyway) are just so wackeeeee that we (I) march to the beat of our own drum. And that drum is beating five days behind the TV show we (I) are (am - OK, that's enough now) about to discuss.
Maybe some of you saw Newsnight Review on Friday, or maybe you have lives (unlikely, if you're reading this but the benefit of the doubt has been granted). Anyway, merry potter Grayson Perry was on discussing Dave Eggers' superlative What is the What, the fictionalised autobiography of a Sudanese refugee. Luminaries of the Tony Parsons ilk were all uxorious, as well they should be. And what was Grayson's reaction? "It made me want to look into every black face and say, 'What is your story?'" Now, is there not something of Ingrid Bergman's concern for "the little brown babies" in Murder on the Orient Express in that sentiment? A little bit, I don't know, oddly colonialist, unintentionally, I have no doubt? Anyway, back to you, Kirsty
