[lit-ideas] Re: Amis Antithesis
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 18:11:29 -0700
Well, see, another Lit-Ideas note to guess about.
Lawrence
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From: Simon Ward <mailto:sedward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Amis Antithesis
Following Amis' essay (link provided in a previous post), this week Pankaj
Mishra provides a counterthrust. And I can confidently say that this won't
appeal much to Lawrence and Eric, but that doesn't mean to say they
shouldn't read it.
Extract:
"It is as if the rage, fear and contempt that have overwhelmed many people
in the non-Western world have also overwhelmed some of the brightest people
in the West, distorting their vision to the point where some extraordinarily
crude fantasies - insulting Islam into a Reformation, boosting an American
Empire, bombing entire societies into democracy - appear to them as
practical solutions to the problems of living in an overcrowded world with
people who are not and, perhaps, do not wish to be like them."
http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/politicsphilosophyandsociety/story/0
,,1874132,00.html#article_continue
Simon
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