Post by Habit on Jun 2, 2005 19:10:52 GMT -5
Chapter 14, page 301 of Iron Council
It only came to me when reading the book a second time recently: this sounds for all the world like Drum&Bass MCing!
Some part of why I like Mieville's writings and particularly New Crobuzon so much is because in a way they resonate with my own surroundings, in instances like these especially. New Crobuzon is the London of yesteryear, the London of today, the London that never was but could have been, or perhaps is in some far flung parallel universe..
It only came to me when reading the book a second time recently: this sounds for all the world like Drum&Bass MCing!
Some part of why I like Mieville's writings and particularly New Crobuzon so much is because in a way they resonate with my own surroundings, in instances like these especially. New Crobuzon is the London of yesteryear, the London of today, the London that never was but could have been, or perhaps is in some far flung parallel universe..