At 01:56 PM 11/30/01 -0600, Carrol Cox wrote:
>I would make this much stronger -- humans cannot survive without a
>fairly substantial degree of predictability in their lives. The
>appearance of order out of chaos runs through all of western literature
>from the Iliad to Pound's Cantos and beyond, and the necessary striving
>for order in everyone's life is the bedrock on which conservative,
>reactionary, and viable left movements are grounded.
>
>Take away the works of literature which revolve around the agony of
>change and you will eliminate most of the world's literature.
>
>Carrol