so let's focus on frank bascombe instead he's seen as a typical american every man a character in which everyone can recognize some aspect of themselves but ford says not true there is no such thing that's just something some cockamamie critic dreams up. he's a very specific man he sees he's a divorced me he's a he's a father of 3 children he takes a job he lives in new jersey he could hardly be any more specific than he is the notion of every man is a. far as i'm concerned a misguided idea. asks us to generalize about people in ways that blurs the individual and the literature invites us to see people in particular you know. we can only do good in particular we can only do bad in particular so that's what i'm interested in i'm not interested in seeing the world from outer space subspace see it turn it out as the want to see people that way. the melancholy character frank bascombe travels throughout his country observing thinking about and commenting on the disasters that befall him to build the public and private but he doesn't take anything or anyone too seriously nor does he let thin

that anguished and their sentiments need to be assuaged mr bascomb we thank you very much for your time we do appreciate that as they bask a live in new delhi thank you. let's move on to other news now an asian stock markets have opened lower just hours after the dow jones suffered its worst loss of the year and several economic indicators have raised fears of a numan global slowdown chinese industrial output last month was lower than expected growing only by 4.8 percent compared to last july the worst pace of growth since 2002 germany's economy meanwhile shrank point one percent from april to june and if there is another reversal this quarter europe's biggest economy will officially be in recession and wall street disproved by adverse signs in the bond market which are traditionally seen as a recession warning signal the dow slumped 800 points or 3 percent atika has moved from washington d.c. . so what had the stock market in such a panic that something called the inverted yield curve sounds complicated but it really isn't this is all about treasury bonds that's basically when you're g