[lit-ideas] All Generalisations Are Dangerous (Including This One)

From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:04:13 EDT
In a message dated 6/11/2009 9:50:51 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
wokshevs@xxxxxx writes:
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> Every absolute view carries its own  exceptions [...]
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Hmmmm .... Is that view not itself an absolute view?  

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It's more like recursion.

And I agree on everything P. A. Stone says about Sotomayor. She recently  
said, "I can speak English. And Spanish. I asked my brother, who is  younger.
 
          Can't you speak  Spanish?
 
 "I don't know: I never tried!" he replied." To the death row!"
 
Apparently, the siblings from the South Bronx, the male has a medical  
practice in Syracuse, but does not take Medicare and the other -- that cater 
for 
 the poor and the old. Blind justice, anyone?
 
--- I think the Brazilians are pretty confused. To start, with, are they  
Hispanic? Surely not!
 
The problem with Hispanic is that even the Hispanics don't know about it. I 
 did some research about this.
 
Today, I was reading about the origin of "Italy". "The country is named  
"Italy" because of the great warrior, Italus; either that, or because there 
were  lots of oxen ('itali') in the land".

I mean, give me a break!
 
With Spain, it's even worse. The iberus, there's the River Ebro, Iberus,  
and this gives IBERIA, which is the name now for the whole PENINSULA.

"Hispania" itself doesn't count -- For Catalonia does not consider  itself 
"Spanish". (My focus of research has been the Via Herculea, only). 
 
So we have "Hispania", "Iberia" -- and the colonies: Argentina, etc. 
 
Puerto Rico, being a military base, is a different _animal_. A total  
different animal. It's colonialism galore. Hence the philosophical puzzles it  
poses to Puerto Ricans: They are not Americans, but they are Americans, they  
cannot vote Americans, but they are not non-Americans, and they are 
non-American  Americans. Very odd.
 
I think she will be a good judge. She was joking when she said that about  
the 'wise Latina' -- and she seems less volatile than Camille Paglia who 
would  have anyone on death row regardless. 
 
What I like about Sotomayor is that before becoming a judge, she worked for 
 Fendi, the fashion-designers.
 
(Perhaps Geary can confide if Sotomayor is a lesbian? I see that Miss  Bono 
 is becoming a male tomorrow). 
 
Cheers,
 
JLS
 

JLS
 
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