--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: <<Jose Saramago can certainly write -- just as Frau Jellinek can certainly not -- but one is compelled to suspect that without his staunch post-1989 membership of the unusually degenerated Portuguese Communist Party he would not have been considered. >>
Well, frankly, if I had to chose between Pinter and Saramago, I would go with Saramago. If this latter's novel "Blindness" does not depict our present situation and the likes of people like Hitch, I dont know what does. Saramago does not need to belong to any party to get the Nobel Prize...hope he does get it next year.
Thomas
<<We are at such a point in mankind's evolution where changed conditions invalidate all our policies that have been so successful even in the recent past, and that presumably have constituted the ideal response to a presumably unchanging and unchangeable human condition. No wonder we are stupefied and confused-but our mistake is the same which many cultures have made before us, namely to force a rigid model upon a fluid reality.
Erich Jantsch - "Design for Evolution: Self-Organization and Planning in the Life of Human Systems"
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