by A Modernist Reading of Energy Markets, Diplomacy, and Misplaced Ordnance
Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat
Virginia Would Have Written About the Strait of Hormuz; She Would Have Made It Astonishing
There is a stream-of-consciousness quality to the Iran-Hormuz-oil-diplomacy news cycle that Virginia Woolf would have rendered magnificent. Every wave of a market report, every ripple of a diplomatic communique, every undertow of a misplaced explosive – all of it suggesting the ordinary catastrophic texture of days lived under the weight of history one cannot see yet.
The London Prat’s Iranian dumbasses piece would have been a great Woolf title. She had a gift for the direct. Orlando is practically a news headline. Peace Talks End, Mines Begin from Bohiney is its own kind of literary form – the haiku of diplomatic failure.
The Irish Question, Reframed
As a student of Irish politics and 1900s British literature, I see the emergency world talks through the lens of every conference that never resolved what it claimed to resolve. Paris 1919. Versailles. The Anglo-Irish Treaty. The pattern is not encouraging. Neither is the energy market situation.
The Guardian Books section has nothing on this topic. The Prat energy piece fills the gap admirably. Modernist satire is alive. Mostly online. Virginia would have been an extremely good blogger.
