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Brian Aldiss - I’m a sort of artist (79/79)

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Channel: Web of Stories - Life Stories of Remarkable People · 2017 · Entertainment

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Writer Brian Aldiss (1925-2017) was best known for his science fiction novels and short stories. 'Non-Stop', his first science fiction novel, was published in 1958. His many award-winning titles include 'Hothouse', 'The Saliva Tree' and 'Helliconia Spring'. [Listener: Christopher Sykes; date recorded: 2014]

TRANSCRIPT: So here's the catalogue of the latest exhibition from the Goldmark Galleries in Rutland, and these are on display, and are now up for sale. And some of them, of course, I'm very pleased with. And I think this one is particularly good, and it's called 'Philosophy Forming Its Own Universe'. And that's the way it goes; it's a triptych. And so these things continue throughout this little booklet. And I went and opened the proceedings a week ago, and everyone there was very nice, and these are all hung in a beautiful room.

Some of them have titles, like, for instance, this one is called 'Structures Against Chaos'. That one understands.  And here, in memory of the past, I suppose, are two paintings said to represent the Brahmaputra and the Irrawaddy, both of which are mighty rivers streaming through Burma. Oh, and this is my nice novel, 'Walcot', which the same studio, Goldmark, published. Very fine, substantial volume they made of it, too. 

So there we are, so I'm an artist, you see. Well, a sort of an artist.

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