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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (68693)	11/27/2002 12:05:04 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

The "impersonal forces" are often personified.

To: Neocon who wrote (68693)	11/27/2002 12:20:04 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

True, to a point. But the drama is much more compelling when the adversary is human than when it is non-human, I think. Few adults read Robinson Crusoe or Swiss Family Robinson or the like with anything like the same interest as they read Lear or Othello. The Sound of Music is more interesting for the escape from the Nazis than for enduring the trek over the mountains. Certainly there are some books where the conquering of the elements or nature are key -- The Perfect Storm, A Walk through the Hindu Kush come to mind. But again, though I enjoy those, none of them have, IMO, the fascination or the power of human good pitted against human evil, or the good and evil sides of a human pitted against each other. Otherwise, why does Stephen King so vastly outsell all the books pitting man against nature?