![]() Vashti is named after the Persian queen who was executed or banished for refusing to appear at her husband’s banquet. This is the fundamental social unit all collapsing cultures are reduced to - as in the ghetto - and at the end of the story night falls on ‘civilization’s long day’. It explores the relationship between Vashti and Kuno, a mother-child dyad. And men must fight to recover their connection to their physicality and their ancestors. In the world of the story, strength is spurned. Before the invention of the internet, it predicted the emergence of an emasculating technocracy. Forster’s ‘The Machine Stops’ (1909) isn’t as famous as 1984 or Brave New World, it’s more prophetic than both combined. ![]() ![]() ‘Fantasies always tell the future,’ said Jonathan Bowden. ![]()
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