[lbo-talk] Arundhati Roy

[Carrol Cox]

When Marianne Moore edited the Dial, her policy was to publish long 
reviews of good books, short reviews of fair books, and no review of bad 
books. You don't like her? Why are you posting on her then?  Are you 
indicatiang a literary response, a jpolitical response, or merely 
indicating that you would not care for her to move into the house next door?

(I have never read her and know almost nothing about her; I have no dog 
in this race.)

Carrol

On 6/4/2011 11:26 PM, // ravi wrote:
> I really, badly, want to like Arundhati Roy. But I cannot bring myself to it:
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>> We are far from the forest now, sitting face to face, curled up on the two corners of a sofa in Roy's living room-cum-work space in one of New Delhi's most affluent neighbourhoods. One wall is lined with books, and a large flat-screen TV. Elsewhere, the walls are adorned with a portrait of Howard Zinn, the late US historian; a poster that says "Stop Dams"; and a large photograph of a Maoist fighter, his weapon next to him.
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>> A bowl of sliced mangos is brought out by the household help, and Roy invites me to share it with her. "Let's eat mangos," she says, sweetly. "There is nothing like mangoes. I once thought I would retire and eat mangoes in the moonlight and generally have a good time. Help yourself.”
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> Seriously?
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> http://l.ravi.be/jCf1mF
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> 	—ravi
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