…a group calling for a non-violent boycott of Israel. I have a hard imagining how you can paint everybody who supports them as antisemitic. If you want a shortcut into his politics, I suggest you read Dead Air.
…country". It's orthogonal to one's feelings wrt Belgian nationals. Unless you think Stephen Hawking, another BDS supporter, dons a balaclava at night to beat up his kippa-bearing neighbours. I have read Dead Air. And it's pretty easy to understand why he would be pissed off at Blair. If your country was headed by a compulsive liar, whose lies had brought your country in a protracted, costly, pointless war, you'd…
…references or is inspired by modern events. The novel is as much an instrument of contemporary social commentary as much as it is anything and to ignore this is to confuse the entire subject. Books like Dead Air by Ian Banks, or Pattern Recognition by William Gibson, are simply not available in earlier eras as their narrative reference points did not yet exist. It is like looking for something in the golden…
……一个呼吁对以色列进行非暴力抵制的团体。我很难想象怎么能把支持他们的所有人都打成反犹分子。如果你想快速摸清他的政治立场，我建议你读读《死寂》（Dead Air）。
…a group calling for a non-violent boycott of Israel. I have a hard imagining how you can paint everybody who supports them as antisemitic. If you want a shortcut into his politics, I suggest you read Dead Air.
……国家”。这和一个人对比利时国民的感情是正交无关的。除非你觉得另一位 BDS 支持者史蒂芬·霍金（Stephen Hawking）也会在晚上戴上头套去暴揍他那些戴基帕（kippa）的犹太邻居。我读过《死寂》（Dead Air）。他为什么会对布莱尔火冒三丈，这再容易理解不过了。如果你的国家被一个习惯性撒谎狂领导，而他的谎言让你的国家卷入了一场旷日持久、耗资巨大且毫无意义的战争，你也会……
…country". It's orthogonal to one's feelings wrt Belgian nationals. Unless you think Stephen Hawking, another BDS supporter, dons a balaclava at night to beat up his kippa-bearing neighbours. I have read Dead Air. And it's pretty easy to understand why he would be pissed off at Blair. If your country was headed by a compulsive liar, whose lies had brought your country in a protracted, costly, pointless war, you'd…
……引用了现代事件或从中汲取灵感。小说在很大程度上就是一种当代社会评论的工具，忽视这一点就会把整个议题搞混淆。像伊恩·班克斯（Ian Banks）的《死寂》（Dead Air）或威廉·吉布森（William Gibson）的《模式识别》（Pattern Recognition）这类的书，在更早的时代根本不可能出现，因为它们的叙事参照点当时还不存在。这就像是在黄金……
…references or is inspired by modern events. The novel is as much an instrument of contemporary social commentary as much as it is anything and to ignore this is to confuse the entire subject. Books like Dead Air by Ian Banks, or Pattern Recognition by William Gibson, are simply not available in earlier eras as their narrative reference points did not yet exist. It is like looking for something in the golden…