The Journey
Bon voyage
March 5, 2010 24 comments
So, Tony Blair’s memoir is to be entitled The Journey. The claim to have gone on a journey, of course, is contemporary pop-pseudopsychology’s favourite way of rationalizing the dreadful or valorizing the pointless. Any idiot who has managed to stay alive between one date and another can be said to have gone on a journey in the interim. So, of course, can anyone who hasn’t managed to stay alive, but has become a traveller to an undiscover’d country, etc. No doubt meditation on this latter fact explains Blair’s suit of solemn black on the front cover. I don’t know what explains the eyes and partly bared teeth.
What do you think Blair’s booky-wook ought to be called, readers?
The Thatcher and the Lie
The Secret Diary of Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (Aged 56 3/4): The War Crimes Years.
I read that as “Blair’s bloody work”.
He could call it, When My Lips Move.
De fide rerum WMD invisibilium
Generalissimo
The Rise and Rise of Tony Blair?
“Will this Do, Mr. President?”
Steve Bell nailed it years ago. My Vision for a New You.
He has never looked more like a dodgy self-help guru/evangelist/whatever than on the cover of his booky-wook.
The Sultan of Spin
Things only got better
Will Drink Pinotage For £££s
Tony Blair – Beating Around The Bush
My Struggle
Vanity Fare.
Lapdogging, or, We learn dances, brand new dances, like the shock and the awe.
I am a Complete Cunt
Or is that too subtle?
Is he calling it “The Journey” in the hope of emulating the success of “The Road”?
Are we still the good guys? he said.
Yes. We’re still the good guys.
And we always will be.
Yes. We always will be.
Having now seen the cover, I wonder if “Look Into My Eyes” might be more appropriate. There’s an air of stage hypnotist to it – and to him, for that matter.
Look Into My Eyes?
Look into my eyes – you will see
What you mean to me
Search your heart – search your soul
And when you find me there you’ll search no more
Don’t tell me it’s not worth tryin’ for
You can’t tell me it’s not worth dyin’ for
You know it’s true
Everything I do – I do it for you …
Look into my eyes, look into my eyes, the eyes, the eyes, not around the eyes, don’t look around my eyes, look into my eyes, you’re under. I have not been taking your underwear home, putting it on in my bedroom and then parading up and down in front of the mirror going ‘Oh, oh, oh, oh’. Three, two, one… You’re back in the room.
Is “The Journey” meant to imply “the Hero Journey”?
I think it should be called Decline and Fall.
Compare and contrast:-
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/009192555X/
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.....-dread.htm
Richard J’s comparison is so excellent I thought I’d do the work for everyone to make it easy to enjoy – with a small addition…
(Did a quick little post with it.)