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Just before I got to meet
Ken Campbell, I listened to an
interview he was giving to a Cable
TV company. While I waited, Ken
explained the pleasures of owning
one's own 'video projector' to the
interviewer; In particular how it
seems to liberate the mind from
the confines of a TV set, also it's a
sort of "Cinema in your own home"
Ken commented.
When I got my chance I just had to
find out more.
Great aren't they, video projectors?
"Marvelous". Ken replied
"Anyone can have them, they don't
cost that much more than a normal
TV setup. I just went into a shop in the
Tottenham Court Road. I wanted the
speakers to go with it. The man asked
me how much I wanted to spend? As
little as possible I said. I have never
been into tweeters...and all that stuff.
Do you just want to hear it the man
said? I would like too I replied, a little
suprised at the question.
You don't want to impress your friends
then, with brand names, the assistant
continued?"
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"Anyway I got speakers all around the
room for about £200...the projector was
about the same amount I think, most of
the other things, video etc people have
got half of it already ... I think what I got
was about the cheapest they had."
(Ken had already described, in some detail,
the'grey matter' differences that could be
derived from these differing viewing
methods...however I think I will leave that for
now!)
Have you had any further thoughts
beyond your Channel 4 TV series
'Brainspotting' ?
"Certainly have, I could have
answered the question in the series but
Channel 4 seemed to want to leave
the series 'sitting on the fence'.
For an answer You have to go to Italy.
I met some guys there who were very
persuasive.
They say you don't have a self, just a
suitcase to put things into. An empty
receptacle into which things can be
put. What you do have is the ability to
be astounded by things, and this
'astoundedness' brings the self into
being."
Ken was accompanied by his two
dogs, Gerty & Fred.
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Wol Wantok
Is a fascinating study into the practical
possibilities of a 'Single Global
Language', Ken's model being based on
the ' pigeon languages' of the South
Pacific Islands.
We are educated in the simplicities and
the down right good common sense of
the the Wol Wantok language which
relieves us of the irrelevances of verb
tense, possessives, imperatives and
much other grammatical 'clutter'.
This fascinating, and highly amusing
insight leaves little doubt that a language,
that can be learned in a few hours, can
cope with the complexities of ,
Shakespeare and the next millennium.
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