17:45.

Who is this Jim White?

The interview above got me intrigued.

Random quotes which struck a note:

"I think if you take people who were genetically bred to live in Scotland where it's cold and rainy all the time and you put them in this crucible of Southern heat and humidity and poverty, I think there's a kind of madness that comes over people, and I think Flannery O'Connor and Faulkner and up to modern day people all talk about that in their work. White Southerners are strangely displaced. If you look at them just within a lifetime, they belong here, but if you look at them over a thousand years, they're displaced. And because of that, they have sort of an ache, and that ache has to be medicated by God and drugs and love and sex and it creates, I think, a more virulent appetite for existence. Because of that, displaced people always fight harder than people who are settled into their lives."

"[Blues music] doesn't try to in any way intellectually resolve itself, and that's really good, because you can talk yourself out of anything if you find enough words. I admire the fact that it's not reconciled, that it's free-floating. Much of the truth of life is that many things are irreconcilable."

"You keep thinking and you'll be fine. Either that or you'll go crazy."


Ah, the idea of an interviewee fascinating and intelligent, an interview which inspires one to weave words around and about even as the endeavour to get inside his/ her head comes off impossibly so far from 100 per cent because of her/ his depth.