What Would Rather Be More Interesting Than: Potter and Kids Reading

[MichaelB]

I was recently at a party where an eleven year old boy blew bubbles
of fire into the congugating blind 'happening' adults.  Candles were
spread about the backyard and tables.  Being a type of celebration,
bubble blowers in the form of mini-champagne bottles were handed out
with the drinks.  Spherical water lighter than air.

Until the water runs out.  Then there's these other white bottles
that are refills  --The kids loved 'em, the bubble-making.  The
hostess's elder child, about eleven and utterly pumped full of the
utmost Hollywood Hills pretentious energy his 'bucks gathering'
mother would allow--i kid not--;he sat down next to me, at the far
end of the grand patio at the end of the pool nearing the dark, me
having just swug down a Heineken bottle (having just previously
sucked down a 'Red Bull and 'Skyy', which thrilled me much less than
the hyper-sun-glassed patrons who poured it)--he blew out the water
bubblesoff the bubble stick, and looked around for his friends. 
'anybody got something else?'  there was a flower candle burning
before us both, between us, which he was lit to, entirely.  I told
him to burn the bubble stick.  he said 'plastic doesn't burn' at the
same time putting it in the flame, letting the wet stick soak up the
heat, and begin to glow.  soon he brought it to his lips and tried
blowing bubbles of fire.  and soon after falling for that silliness,
in front of 65 Hollywood supertards dressed as Vegas
Thrill-Trash--the evening 'mode', him and his friends jumped into the
water and made an insignificant, dull ruccous.  much less that if
they had grabbed my hand and pulled me along for a dunk...--Here is
what burns in circles....

Of course the big-splash kids were soon ignored; they soon felt
ignored, and I went on to discuss my sexuality with a French director
of photography whom cocaine and no reason could stifle....

What children need, they do not need Harry Potter, and even they do
not need Thomas Pynchon.  Children need reason; but most importantly,
when they reach a mature phenomenological age--that is of fifteen or
sixteen--what the children need is Psychedelics....

michael



--- Meg Larson <Megley1 at excite.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 1 Jul 2000 07:10:30 -0700 (PDT), Mark Wright AIA wrote:
> 
> >  Howdy
> >  
> >  J K Rowling  --  more power to her!  I hope she has a terrific
> >  financial deal with her publisher.  Let's see, if every living
> person
> >  gives her a nickel because they like something she's written,
> then she
> >  can anticipate a total take of, of 250 million bucks,plus or
> minus. 
> >  Sounds about right, doesn't it?   The new title, evidently, is
> "Harry
> >  Potter & The Goblet of Fire", which is splendid, isn't it?  Oh
> for the
> >  days of our youth, when we read Tolkein and loved it.
> >  
> 
> My 12-year-old son loves the Potter books, and is currently making
> his way
> through the _Lord of the Rings_ trilogy, having just read _The
> Hobbit_ in
> about a day.  Wants to read Estleman's Novels of Detroit next . . .
> 
> The kid has taste, one can argue, and I can't wait 'til he's ready
> for
> Pynchon.
> 
> M.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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