Peter K wrote:
>
>This morning I read a book review of celebrated author Jonathan
>Franzen's new essay collection How To Be Alone. The reviewers says
>Franzen had a close call with depression. Also, she ends the review with
>
>"In the four scant pages of "Inauguration Day, January 2001," Mr.
>Franzen describes riding from
>Harlem to Washington with a group of demonstrators from the
>International Socialist Organization and marching to the Supreme
>Court building in the rain. On the way home, he concludes: "Few
>pleasures compare with that of riding on a bus after dark, hours
>behind schedule, with people you violently agree with." This book
>illustrates what he means."
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/04/books/04MASL.html
>
>Obviously, the left is very interested in and knowledgable about
>dark, depressing subjects even
>though their elimination is its raison d'etre.
One of the complaints my publisher got about "Beyond Ramps" (from a "lefie")was that it was depressing. Well obviously the complainer thought we disabled people are supposed to inspire and make light of a "bad situation" not expose social injustice! We may as well hang up our hats and shoot all the investigative reporters if "the left" needs to put on a happy face. Who wants to know about militaristic bad doings, killings in our name all over the world anyway. Hey instead of gong to protests we can all go shopping at the nearest mall. Is that cheery enough?
Marta
-- Marta Russell Los Angeles, CA http://www.disweb.org