Ah the return to apocalypse is happening, & you've often been on it,
Fred. I note Ursula K Le Guin mentioning that books like Cormac
McCarthy's The Road, while noticed as 'literature' repeat the tropes
of 50's SF. You get it into the space of a poem, sly & casual..., & of
course the particulars are different now....
Doug
On 26-Jan-08, at 2:33 PM, Frederick Pollack wrote:
> Tipping Point
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& luckily people don't love us
for our virtue or
we'd be in a bad way.
Graham Greene
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