I don’t have a personal column, and I don’t think I’d be interested in doing that. Radio listeners didn’t want to hear “I think”, he was informed; he should express his views without reservation or equivocation. But I don’t think that’s how most of us are built.”The essay, unlike radio punditry, is purpose-built for the accommodation of ambivalence, for groping your way, sentence by sentence, toward illumination. And what made those more personal pieces difficult to write was the anxiety about revealing himself in ways he hadn’t necessarily meant to. Ok, Let’s Do Your Stupid Idea by Patrick Freyne is published by by Penguin Sandycove and is out now

Source: The Irish Times September 13, 2020 05:03 UTC