"That's worth the complete works of Murray, Heaney
(the
>Murray of Ireland, with all that implies?) and the
>rest of the 21st century patoralist nationalists.
Let's have the lot, to all our richness.
I don't like imposed choices, where none need be
made."
But they do need to be made - Les Murray knew that
when he rejected Johnston's book. Ruskin knew that
when he slagged Whistler. The perpetrators of the Ern
Malley hoax knew it, too.
Let's use the good ol political analogy: can
anindividual 'have' both (say) socialism and fascism?
Only if the words 'socialism' and 'fascism' lost all
real meaning, all connection to real life, for him.
Part of the point of being a socialist is rejecting
fascism, and viceversa.Similarly, part of the point of
liking Martin Johnston is HATING Les Murray.
It's not richness you're advocating but poverty.
Cheers
Scott
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>That's worth the complete works of Murray, Heaney
(the
>Murray of Ireland, with all that implies?) and the
>rest of the 21st century patoralist nationalists.
Let's have the lot, to all our richness.
I don't like imposed choices, where none need be made.
Best
A
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"Why is it not possible for me to doubt that I have never been on the moon? And how
could I try to doubt it? First and foremost, the supposition that perhaps I have
been there would strike me as idle. Nothing would follow from it, nothing be
explained by it. It would not tie in with anything in my life... Philosophical
problems occur when language goes on holiday. We must not separate ideas from life,
we must not be misled by the appearances of sentences: we must investigate the
application of words in individual language-games" - Ludwig Wittgenstein
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