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- From: "RHONDA MCDONNELL" <rhonda_mcdonnell AT msn.com>
- To: percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [percy-l] /LITR
- Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 16:32:07 -0700
Larry wrote:
>I have been rereading LITR with great pleasure. On the matter of the center not holding, I am reminded how Binx used to enjoy going to the library and reading political journals. The animosity expressed toward opponents by pundits on different sides struck him as a rare sign of life in an otherwise haunted, if not simply dead, populace, zombies going through the motions of life.
which reminds me of the later Tom More in The Thanatos Syndrome who reflected on the impassioned polarization he found among the prisoners while he was jailed.
--Rhonda
The best lack all convictions, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity. -- WB Yeats
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Re: [percy-l] /LITR,
Lawrence Rhu, 09/25/2005
- Re: [percy-l] /LITR, RHONDA MCDONNELL, 09/25/2005
- Re: [percy-l] /LITR, dabeck, 09/25/2005
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