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To: Lane3 who wrote (3351)	10/18/2001 12:35:39 PM
From: Poet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 51701

Hi Karen, Yes, I'm in agreement with you on the Kinsolver piece. She made her point elegantly and reasonably, though I disagree with its conclusion. She manages to express pacifism without the (IMO!) ditsy "all you need is love" stuff espoused by Alice Walker. Personally, I find that stuff dangerously and naively retro. As for vengeance, I've been giving that a lot thought as well. The desire for vengeance is not something I feel in this case -- or ever, really. I've been trying to figure if it's gender-linked and have to say that given a number of very vocal women on SI calling for vengeance, it may not be. -g And what exactly is vengeance? Is it an equivalent payback (an eye for an eye)? Must it be meted out in the same milieu as the original incident? Would US economic sanctions (including our no longer buying their oil) satisfy peoples' need for vengeance, or is only sated with blood?