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Politics and literature
On Aug 13, 3:40*pm, Spence Morris wrote:
"Believe me," the snake said, continuing to instruct her candidate, the ass, "no matter what any other animal may say, politics in this forest is entirely species-oriented. *A skunk will always vote for a skunk, a rabbit for a rabbit, an eagle for an eagle, and so forth. *That's just the way things are among us animals." THE POLITY OF BEASTS The novel so politically incorrect, the New York Times refused to review it. Here's a quote from the author: "For almost fifty years, certainly for the last thirty or forty," Iacovelli says, commenting on the provenance for his novel, "the American political system has been broken, but it's broken because American society has been broken. Our sense of ourselves as a nation has been whittled away year after year, and we see that reflected in the bitter and in some cases purely libelous partisan politics of the day, as well as in growing sectarian strife. Intimidated by political correctness into accepting policies defying common sense, we've been in a freefall toward social disaster. My novel is a wake-up call alerting Americans to this. It is likely however that the general somnambulism has grown so abysmal, so impenetrable, so irretrievable, that nothing any one person can do can make much of a difference. Having complacently adjusted the noose around our necks and pushed forward the lever for the trapdoor beneath our feet--can we expect anything other than the inexorable thing? But someone had to write a book like this. If it had been written a lot sooner, maybe things wouldn't have come to so bad a head. At any rate, I'm glad it's coming out in time for the Presidential elections. It should be read every election year." |
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