Know Your Place
Monday, November 3
Chicken counting
I'm finding it fascinating how everyone is assuming that Barack Obama is already the next president of the USA. Today I have a piece up on the Granta website which, perhaps foolishly, works on the same assumption - though with the odd note of caution.
It would certainly take an earthquake for him not to win, it seems. But earthquakes happen. If he doesn't, I'll be saving this piece to show my grandchildren. 'The moral of this story, young 'uns', I will say, as the fire glows beside my bath chair, 'is that your grandaddy didn't really ever know what the hell he was talking about. Strangely, people published him anyway. Hell, sometimes they even paid him.'
It would certainly take an earthquake for him not to win, it seems. But earthquakes happen. If he doesn't, I'll be saving this piece to show my grandchildren. 'The moral of this story, young 'uns', I will say, as the fire glows beside my bath chair, 'is that your grandaddy didn't really ever know what the hell he was talking about. Strangely, people published him anyway. Hell, sometimes they even paid him.'
Posted by Paul at 5:25 PM 
