re:re

I came across this passage on another blog as a result of a google search that I don't remember, but it was shocking that someone was able to link two different character types to different writers:

'Contemporary fiction,' I said to Jimmy, 'is either pod or ped. Left-hand rack, you'll observe, begins with J.G. Ballard, Super Cannes. Pod-meister. Suburban solipsism: world in a windscreen. Right-hand rack is ped. The walkers. W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz, Rings of Saturn. Sit at your PC as you sit in the car: pod person, Lose yourself in the rhythms of the walk: pedestrian. Stately prose, Sebald.'

I'll leave it to your imagination to figure out who wrote that - it isn't really central to the argument and I just feel like being that asshole who doesn't source things.

I'm a pod.

peace