Joanna wrote:
> Well, she's always made me sick. But, your question is interesting. I
think
> she's regarded as an intellectual because she uses complex grammatical
> constructions and college words. I think she's famous because she
> positioned herself as the typical romantic/suffering/victimized/doubt-torn
> intellectual that western civ loves. As Stephen Greenblatt used to put it
> in conclusion to many of his lectures "There is hope, but not for
> us.".....without ever actually defining who "us" is. But I suspect that
> "us" is a flavor of angst-ridden institutionally-nested intellectual that
> both Sontag and Greenblatt exemplify.
>
> Joanna Bujes
I prefer the translation "There is an abundance of hope, but none for us."
-- Luke