PooterGeek

7 Comments

1. Beth
   Posted 01Feb08 at 22:02 | Permalink

   Wow. Very, very impressed with this woman. Thanks, PG.

2. PooterGeek
   Posted 02Feb08 at 10:07 | Permalink

   You’re welcome, though that video’s been around for months, and lots of other people have linked to it, but it seemed relevant to the matter at hand. I don’t agree with everything Dr Sultan says, but she’s certainly not a racist either.

3. bob
   Posted 02Mar08 at 08:56 | Permalink

   amis certainly does a very good impression of one then.

4. Morgs
   Posted 03Mar08 at 11:57 | Permalink

   Alright then, I wrote to - and subsequently - interviewed Amis when ‘Money’ was published and given his legendary dislike of hacks, he couldn’t have been more pleasant. There are polite racists but in my experience I don’t think he was one.

   But I am a Paki.

5. PooterGeek
   Posted 03Mar08 at 12:29 | Permalink

   I was tempted for a microsecond to reply to “bob” with an account of my own very pleasant and interesting experience* of meeting Martin Amis (in a Radio 4 green room), but 1) it would have been name dropping, 2) Amis was carrying a tennis racket and dressed entirely in white at the time so he might have been on his way to a KKK meeting, 3) bob hadn’t said anything worth responding to.

   *Via the media, I’ve heard and read some daft stuff from Amis; but I’ve met a lot of clever people in my life (including a few Nobelists in disciplines where a Nobel prize means something) and, in person, he is one of the cleverest.

6. PooterGeek
   Posted 03Mar08 at 12:42 | Permalink

   I blew it on the name-dropping front there, didn’t I?

7. Morgs
   Posted 03Mar08 at 22:07 | Permalink

   Never name-drop, as the Duke of Edinburgh once said to me.