[lit-ideas] FW: Re: Literature as a reflection of life
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 01:02:49 -0400
Gore Vidal calls the war on terror a metaphorical war. It's not a real war
according to him. He said those words on a show about Lincoln on the History
Channel, because Lincoln led the Civil War. Vidal wrote a biography on
Lincoln, was one of the authors quoted. The show was basically from a
psychohistorical perspective of Lincoln's life, his lifelong depression and its
causes. I came away from it with a deep respect for Lincoln. It was a bio of
his entire life but structured around the last day of his life when he was
assassinated. At the very end, Gore Vidal says, "... [they said] and the
President is dead," and he started to cry. I didn't know that the North was
willing to let the South secede. Lincoln was the one who held the union
together. They gave psychohistorical reasons for that as well. We would be
two countries today if it were not for him.
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