[lbo-talk] in which lbo-talk defends 'the sopranos'

[Carl Remick]

>From: Dwayne Monroe <idoru345 at yahoo.com>
>
>We spend many (perhaps most) of our hours trapped in one form of amber or 
>another - in traffic, in offices, in, if we're very poor, run down and 
>perhaps dangerous environments, etc.  Under these circumstances, it's 
>natural to indulge in a dream of immediate liberation from these heavy 
>chains.

E. M. Forster made a remark in A Passage to India that has always stuck in 
my mind:  "Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about 
it, and the books and talk that would describe it as interesting are obliged 
to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence. Inside its 
cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most 
part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly 
as alert as we pretend."

A real  Zorba the Greek was old Forster.

Carl