----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenneth Wolman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 2:52 AM
Subject: Re: Colonisation
> David Bircumshaw wrote:
>
> >Unfortunately Alison, 'Ken, Deborah, Hal' are part of 'you lot'. Just as
you
> >are part of Rupert Murdoch or I am part of Tony Blair. One doesn't want
to
> >bear that shame, but we have it, however much we might wriggle, there is
no
> >getting away from the fact of the USA's wealth and how that is founded on
> >the poverty of others, just as, on a slightly smaller scale, the wealth
of
> >the UK and Australia is. You wouldn't be able to fly round the world on
> >writing tours (neither would have I, a few years back) unless it was for
the
> >impauperisation of others. Let's be honest about this.
> >
> >Best
> >
> >Dave
> >
> >
> David, just this last. You see, the God in whom I believe and whom you,
> I may guess, regard as a capitalist fiction resembling Henry Clay Frick,
> put you in my life for a reason: to teach me self-control, to answer in
> the most pointed yet non-inflammatory way I can, and then to leave the
> field to those who wish to self-destruct. I have a long history of
> digging myself a grave with tongue and pen. This time?--an answer but
> that is all. I will leave you with this: Have you the vaguest notion of
> how hackneyed these comments are? I expect the stuff about the US
> growing wealthy on the backs of others to come from my 24-year-old son,
> not from someone somewhat older and with more time and observation of
> the world.
>
> I can't speak to the impauperization of others that allows me to take
> writing tours, since I've never been on a writing tour. I'll try to do
> better, for I long to consort with the whores of Bangkok so long as they
> are over the age of consent. What IS the age of consent in Thailand,
> anyway?
>
> Ken
>
> ----------------------------------------
> Kenneth Wolman www.kenwolman.com kenwolman.blogspot.com
>
> 39. Not observing the imperfections of others, preserving silence and a
continual communion with God will eradicate great imperfections from the
> soul and make it the possessor of great virtues.
> --St. John of the Cross, Maxims on Love (The Minor Works)
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