Oh fair enough
L
----- Original Message -----
From: "paul murphy" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 13 November 2002 21:58
Subject: Re: Padraic Fallon (or 'values')
| I wasn't making one, I was merely asking what he might have said. This
seems to be something he might say, and something that some US Jews will be
offended at.
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|
| >From: Lawrence Upton
| >Reply-To: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry
and poetics
| >To: [log in to unmask]
| >Subject: Re: Padraic Fallon (or 'values')
| >Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 21:40:55 -0000
| >
| >the comparisons are many
| >
| >land grab
| >
| >scapegoating an opppressed race
| >
| >construction of a non existent past, rebuilding the supposed glories of a
| >previous (pre-Roman) empire, glories supposedly deriving from racial
purity
| >
| >irrational emphasis upon a special people belonging to a particular land
| >
| >racism as a structural device of the polity
| >
| >state murder as an instrument of policy
| >
| >what was your point?
| >
| >L
| >
| >----- Original Message -----
| >From: "paul murphy"
| >To:
| >Sent: 13 November 2002 21:22
| >Subject: Re: Padraic Fallon (or 'values')
| >
| >
| >| has he compared the State of Israel to Nazi Germany?
| >|
| >|
| >|
| >| >From: Robin Hamilton
| >| >Reply-To: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry
| >and poetics
| >| >To: [log in to unmask]
| >| >Subject: Re: Padraic Fallon (or 'values')
| >| >Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 19:31:07 -0000
| >| >
| >| > > All these attacks on fantasy are getting to me.
| >| >
| >| >Hear, hear, Doug.
| >| >
| >| > > As for terry Pratchett, well
| >| > > those who love Woodhouse for his completely unreal world
| >| >
| >| >Neat point.
| >| >
| >| > >seem to like
| >| > > Pratchett for much the same reason. I've only read on of his novels
| >but
| >| > > confess I was laughing so hard at parts of it my wife wondered if I
| >was
| >| >all
| >| > > right.
| >| >
| >| >I've read quite a few. Some are better than others. He's not (for me)
| >good
| >| >enough that I've gone out of my way to read them all, but he's surely
| >good
| >| >enough that I'd pick up and read read any one I hadn't read yet. An
| >| >amazon.com recommendation would probably go, "People who bought this
| >novel
| >| >also bought Douglas Adams and Ernest Bramah."
| >| >
| >| >As to Paulin, anyone know exactly what he's saying at Harvard at the
| >moment?
| >| >An American friend sent me a despairing email containing only, "Oh
God,
| >| >Paulin's at it again." And there's been a renewed outbreak of
anti-Paulin
| >| >posts on ALSC, on the lines of "Why are we paying money to this raving
| >| >anti-semite?" I've given up trying to defend Tom to Americans. If he's
| >| >going to keep on shooting himself in the foot, and blow away perfectly
| >valid
| >| >points by tagging-on some lunatic throwaway comment, he can dig the
| >bullet
| >| >out with his own penknife.
| >| >
| >| >How someone as both nice and intelligent as him can come come out with
| >some
| >| >of the idiocies he does baffles me.
| >| >
| >| >Robin
| >|
| >|
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