Guitar Hero

men: one dead, one British, and one crazy. Robert Louis Stevenson said, “The only art is to omit.” Tony Cox, a fabulous British writer: “Inside every fat ad there’s a thinner and better one trying to get out.” And then there’s Neil French, one of my heroes and an absolutely stellar writer from Singapore. I was lucky enough to meet him one day, and he walked me through a wonderful exercise in in the art of omitting, of reductionism. He started by drawing a thumbnail sketch of a typical ad (number one

slushing voice, The while she searched for him the fleas in his bald patch So with whom, ventrebleu !, must I go to bed To provoke a bit the goddess with hundred mouths? Must a woman who is a celebrity, a star Come to take in my arms the place of my guitar? To excite the people and the gutter press. Who is willing to lend me her much fancied butt? Who is willing to let me, not wearing a stitch, Have a bit of a scramble on her mount of Venus Would these trumpets of the Gods ring out more loud If, like

sein même de ces musiques. L’intransigeance du connaisseur qui défend Brian Wilson contre Whitney Houston est renvoyée à un vain bavardage ; le geste esthétique d’un refus du solo de guitare dans le rock indépendant des années 1980 contre les « guitar heroes » qui sévissaient alors dans les stades n’a tout au plus qu’une valeur culturelle ; l’histoire matérielle de la musique populaire, en tant qu’histoire des techniques de sa production (et pas seulement de sa diffusion), de l’invention de la guitare

other men. She went toward him. "Madame Gervaise!" he exclaimed in surprise, his face radiant with joy, and then seeing his companions laugh and wink, he pushed Etienne toward his mother. "You came to see your boy," he said; "he does his duty like a hero. 89 "I am glad of it," she answered, "but what an awful place this is to get at!" And she described her journey, as she called it, and then asked why no one seemed to know Etienne there. "Because," said the blacksmith, "he is called Zou Zou

French−english (dictionnaire) guidon : handlebar guidons : guide guigner : squint, strabismus guignol : doll, puppet guillement : quotation marks guillemet : inverted comma, quotation mark, quote guillemets : quotation marks, quotes guitare : guitar guivre : queue, ake, line, snake gustation : taste gustative : gustatory gutturale : gutturally gymnase : gymnasium gymnaste : gymnast gymnastique : gymnastics gynécoloque : gynaecologist gyroscope : gyroscopic habile : clever, dexterous, skillful