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To: FaultLine who started this subject	1/8/2003 12:49:05 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) of 281500

Joan Didion has a quasi interesting piece in the most recent issue of The New York Review of Books on (a) the conflation of rhetoric after 9-11 (don't think, just find out which side of the binary logic you wish to be one); and (b) the use of the reaction to 9-11 to try to settle old political scores (post-modernist thought is responsible for 9-11; multiculturalists are responsible for 9-11; Edward Said is responsible for 9-11 (well, no , she didn't say that latter, but could easily have done so.) I'm not a big fan of her style but, so far as I'm concerned, she is saying something that needs to be said more often. Feature Fixed Opinions, or The Hinge of History By Joan Didion The following is based on a lecture given this November at the New York Public Library. nybooks.com

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