191 views

5:38

Watch
- Search Videos
  
  Advanced search »
- Submit a New Video
Discuss
About
- Try clicking on the various channels to see videos posted to that channel - if you're into music you can click the Music channel to get more music sifts - go on and explore! Use the "hotness" when you have opened the channel link to get videos that have gotten a lot of votes, or use "newness" to have a look at the new sifts.
  When browsing sifts you like, have a look at the Related Posts list to see other related videos, click the tags under the video title to see more sifts tagged with the same tags or have a look at other sifts from the same user in the More Posts By list. If the sifted video is in a play list, have a look at the play list to see other interesting videos the Sift users have linked together.
  Enter the Sift Lounge to chat with online sifters about anything and everything, or read interesting posts in the Sift Talk forum.
  The Top New Videos list is always full of interesting, current videos. It is always recommended that you have a look through the Top New Videos, but also have a look at these:
  - Upcoming Unsifted Videos - active video submissions that neither are published to the front page nor archived to the submitter's personal queue
- Have you seen a really funny, surprising, scary, interesting, cute or in any other way extra good quality video?
  Post and share it here - VideoSift is the best video aggregator on the Web, where we share, discuss, promote, and interact with the best videos out there on the web. Post it here, and share it with the large community of video-interested users. And - you are guaranteed to find more very good videos here already!
  Mind you, we only share videos you discover that someone else has made; if you "self link," by posting a video you have made, have posted or have interests in, you risk the ban hammer - read the posting guidelines before posting. The sift is NOT for promoting your own videos - it is for sharing videos others have made.
  Submit a Video Now »
Login

Five minutes with Iain Banks

submitted by ChaosEngine

1 decade 1 year 7 months 1 week ago

In honour of Iain (M.) Banks' passing.

Without even a shadow of a doubt, one of my favourite ever authors. Witty, graceful, intelligent, moral and a genuine joy to read.

When I reached the end of the interviewer, and he asked for 10 minutes more and Banks replied "I don't see why not", I nearly starting crying.

10 minutes, 10 months, 10 more years would be fantastic. But it's not going to happen. So I'm going to go home tonight, and sit in silence with a bottle of single malt and a copy of Use Of Weapons.

Goodbye, Iain. I never met you, but I'll genuinely miss you.

7 Comments

*promote one of the literary greats of our time.

Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Sunday, June 9th, 2013 2:41pm PDT - promote requested by original submitter ChaosEngine.

What?! Banks died? No... didn't know he was sick.

I'll have to watch the fan film based on his Culture novels... *related=http://videosift.com/video/Something-Real

Something Real has been added as a related post - related requested by RFlagg.

Babymech says...

Aw shit, I had no idea he'd died. I felt there were a lot of unwritten novels left from both Banks

Dumdeedum says...

RIP indeed. He was by far one of my favourite authors, I can only hope he'd backed himself up recently with a Mind.

I think he probably sublimed.

RIP indeed. He was by far one of my favourite authors, I can only hope he'd backed himself up recently with a Mind.

Discuss...

🗨️ Emojis & HTML

Enable JavaScript to submit a comment.

This website uses cookies.

This website uses cookies to improve user experience. By using this website you consent to all cookies in accordance with our Privacy Policy.