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Politics : The Left Wing Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: coug who wrote (2141)	12/27/2000 11:00:24 PM
From: coug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6089

Quoting from Hendrik Hertzburg, writing in the December 25,2000 issue of "The New Yorker".. Another favorite of mine BTW.. "That was a tough concession speech Al Gore had to give the other night, but people have had to give tougher ones over the years. In 1633, a prominent well-connected member of the high-tech community of Florence found himself on the wrong end of a decision by the then equivalent of the Supreme Court. Put on trial by the Inquisition, he was found guilty of advocating a doctrine described in the Holy Office's indictment as "absurb and false philosophically, because it is expressly contrary to Holy Scripture" This was a characterization with which the defendant was known to privately disagree. But he was anxious to avoid being cast as a troublemaker and eager for the healing to begin, so he said the words the occasion required. "I ,Galileo, son of the late Vincenzo Galilei, Florentine, aged seventy years," he recited, "abjure,curse, and detest the aforesaid errors and heresies and I swear that I will never again say or assert that the Sun is the center of the universe and immovable and that the Earth is not the center and moves." Before Galileo was led away to spend the rest of his life under comfortable house arrest, however, he kicked the ground, according to legend, muttered,"Eppur si muove"- "But still it moves."

To: coug who wrote (2141)	12/28/2000 10:58:44 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6089

all great writers are driven by their passion for a cause...Usually for the underdog,, A controlled rage to help No doubt that is true of many, but does their best writing come out of that passion? I think most great writers are driven by a desire to write for its own sake. Mark Twain wrote some powerful iconoclastic political pieces, but I think we can agree his best stuff was Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. And Steinbeck's best stuff (imo) was Cannery Row, Sweet Thursday, and Tortilla Flat, stories that praised the fine art of wine drinking and carrying on. I don't recall them being very political, like his more celebrated writing was. most great writers tend to be left wing.. <G> Do you really think so? Are TS Eliot, John Crowe Ransom, John Dos Passos, Robert Penn Warren, Flannery O'Connor, Fred Chappell, Walker Percy,... I could go on and on...are these left wing writers? I think even old Ed Abbey, one of your favorites, wouldn't be considered left wing.