Thomas
--- Thomas Seay <entheogens at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> --- 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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