[lbo-talk] anxious

[Mark S]

Cristobal Senior wrote:
>
>This is pure romantic wishful thinking about wall streeters .Most of  them
>tend to be cultural ignoramuses of severe proportions. Actually  very few 
>speak
>foreign languages and maybe about less than 10 % of the Wall St  labor 
>force
>deal with foreign operations.Not being interested in any thing but  their
>myopic job interests, they are definitely extremely provincial types  
>lacking in
>elementary "worldliness"
>I'll take any "literary type" over a wall- streeter any time.

I was hoping to focus on people who have clout in this day and age.  
Disraeli wrote a novel while he was the leader of a national political 
party.  Octavio Paz wrote and collaborated with influential people while he 
was a diplomat.  Richard Brinsley Sheridan was a playwright and leading 
politician.  I just don't see today's writers wielding that sort of clout.  
If they're marginalized, what does their worldliness count for besides 
enjoyable dinner party conversation?

M.

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