On the same stage where Jimi Hendrix burnt his guitar and The Who trashed their instruments, Shankar sat cross-legged behind his sitar, calm and focussed, engaging in musical dialogues of thrilling virtuosity with his tabla player, Alla Rakha, in front of tens of thousands of stunned hippies.
As I watched the rough cut I spent the whole time either thinking about what had been left out (despite telling myself to leave the book outside the door) or being thrilled to hear dialogue from the novel spoken by the actors.
"The Realistic Joneses" is thrilling to watch for Mr Eno's way with dialogue, which eludes melodrama and embraces a rhythmic and humane weirdness.In one scene, for example, two neighbours run into each other at a supermarket.
I've always loved both fiction and poetry, and I thought it would be thrilling to build a world for readers, with characters, dialogue, place, something you don't get to do in lyric poetry.
It was thrilling, just thrilling.
This is thrilling, thrilling stuff.
