Jack London Made Me A Lifelong Socialist

No turncoat me like Blur, or even worse - there is only one person living on this earth that is wose than him, namely Robert Kiljoy Milk.

However dear readers, this is not a moment for frivolity ( I am branded a serious man - yet my favourite tele programme is , "Friends"). Serious men, like Picasso and me need to turn off occasionally and indulge ourselves in Friends and sex and all of that pallaver.

Now quickly to the point. In my formative years I read Jack London's - "People of the Abyss" -
which told of his experiences living in the slums of London. He was outraged by the poverty he saw, within a mile of Queen Vic's pad and the Stock Exchange - where people are murdered by the mile because a certain commmodity has gone down the drain. Like all of those people at M&S who will soon lose everything 'cos of the sunami beacause they can't finger cheap clothes in third world countries for the rich bustards, like me to buy at 5000% mark ups.

Any man that can write these words, " Small wonder that I am restless. I think, and think, and cannot cease from thinking. I have been in the thick of life so long that I am oppressed by the peace and quiet, and I cannot forebear upon that mad maelstrom of death and destruction so soon to burst forth. In my ears are the cries of the stricken; and I can see, as I have seen in the past, all the marring and mangling of the sweet, beautiful flesh, and the souls torn with violence from proud bodies and hurled to God. Thus do we poor humans attain our ends, striving through carnage and destruction to bring lasting peace and happiness upon the earth", still lives on.

Harry Potter, Emily Bronte, George Orwell Bush and Nick Hornby genefluct before a real meheboth of the english language and The Beatles, The Spice Girls and Tolkien - you can never provide the sheer brilliace and excitement of this man.

He is a genius and long overdue for revival. Read him now, before you die, and learn what real life is all about.

Nuff said
Gordon