[lbo-talk] U.S. in Israel's corner; IS is US

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Wed Jun 9 22:05:23 PDT 2010


On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:09:02 -0400 (EDT) Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:


> I've begun to think that
> letter writers of the classic era had essentially the same problems
> we have. In fact, I think many otherwise inexplicable fallings out
> between artists and intellectual in the 17-19th centuries can be best
> interpreted as flamewars between people who communicated entirely by
> letter.

I like this idea, and there's no doubt you're onto something here.

As my dear wife loves to say: 'Twas ever thus....

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Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org http://fakesprogress.blogspot.com

"Everyone has his favorite passage from the Theodosian Code." -- M I Finley



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