Pip Pip by Jay Griffiths
An enthusiastic piece of pop anthropology on the one subject that has ousted sex and money from the top of the obsessions league. Jay Griffiths takes the subject of "time" in her teeth and chews at it until it's a far more palatable item. Her exploration of the passage of time includes; our obsession with speed, with overtaking; motorways and their link to fascism; war; Mercury (god of flight) and the mythology of time and speed; Diana and Marilyn Monroe, flawed women who, through their violent deaths, have become timeless icons; history and the heritage industry; the "meanness" of Greenwich Mean Time; the fast language we now have to go with fast food; Aborigine dreamtime; the difference between festivals and pageants; May Day; and the New Year.
'Time-measurement is everywhere; deadlines, pingers on cookers, clocks squatting on computer screensThe pips of time are spat out at you by the radio -- and if these are the pips, where is time's fruit? To live in such an overwound, overclocked present is to live not in the fullness but the emptiness of time.'
JAY GRIFFITHS read English at Oxford and has written extensively for (amongst others) the Guardian, the Observer, and the London Review of Books. This is her first book.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780002570770 |
| ISBN 10 | 0002570777 |
| Title | Pip Pip |
| Author | Jay Griffiths |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 1999-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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