The Cloudbuster

One of the ways people are trying to respond personally and emotionally to the destruction of the planet is via cloudbusters. I was first introduced to the idea by Kate Bush, whose tune "Cloudbusting" really contained some of the weird romantic sense of technology that is both the hope and pain of such, er, follies.

Harper's ran an amazing article recently, called "Owning the Weather" which really, finally, provided me with a framework for my pro-pathetic fallacy leanings, which is pretty much what I've been looking for ever sense I read "The Snow Man." Anyway, the author, a wonderful romantic lefty, used his cloudbuster on the Republican National Convention: See?

Anyway, this is really the kind of thing I want my next book to deal with. The persistance of romanticism, forces of spirit etc, in the world of the discredited attempt at wonder.

Anyway, I love the cloudbuster and all it represents as an anecdote to bureaucratic asshole madness.

Long Live the Pathetic Fallacy