Re: GG:Solitude Trilogy

[Alun Severn <alun@ukiah.demon.co.uk>]

MJ wrote:

>I was thinking about the (IMHO ridiculous) idea GG had of making a
>fourth docudrama in the ST about China and the Chinese as a solitary
>people. (Of course after refusing to travel to China to test his theory
>for himself!)

I don't think this was such a ridiculous idea: I think GG spotted that to
live amongst millions, in a (then) highly regimented social system, can be
a kind of isolation, or can produce a sensibility which values and
understands isolation...

Just a thought....

- Alun

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