There’s a passage from Small Gods that has lived rent free in my head for over 20 years, about how the first human Om found and his first prophet was very nearly a goatherd but by a chance of minor geography was a shepherd instead:
They have quite different ways of looking at the world, and the whole of history might have been different. For sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.
…and for me, it’s like, short of just some flat voice over, how do you put that on screen? The concept, the idea, the delicious rhythm of the prose-and-near-poetry of it?
There’s a passage from Small Gods that has lived rent free in my head for over 20 years, about how the first human Om found and his first prophet was very nearly a goatherd but by a chance of minor geography was a shepherd instead:
…and for me, it’s like, short of just some flat voice over, how do you put that on screen? The concept, the idea, the delicious rhythm of the prose-and-near-poetry of it?