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Politics : To be a Liberal,you have to believe that.....
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To: Neocon who wrote (3806)10/12/1999 9:26:00 AM
From: Tom Clarke  Read Replies (1) of 6418
 
In his memoirs, the title of which was The Sword of Imagination, he refers to himself in the third person. Its a little disconcerting at first, but the reader eases into it. The concluding paragraph from the preface:

Enthisiasts for modernity, the global village, the end of history, the gross national product, emancipation from moral inhibitions, abstract rights without concomitant duties, and what Samuel Johnson called "the lust for innovation" - why, such folk may be little pleased by my fulminations and vaticinations. But in the phrases of a chief hero of popular culture, Popeye the Sailorman - my contemporary, for I perused his comic strip daily in my boyhood, and recall his first appearance in a strip earlier denominated Olive Oyl - "I am what I am and that's all I am." It would be vanitas vanitatum to draw an analogy between Popeye's battle with Alice the Goon and Kirk's resistance to the intellectual goons of the latter half of the twentieth century.
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