[lit-ideas] Re: Howdy stranger!
- From: Carol Kirschenbaum <carolkir@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 18:16:08 -0700
Eric mused:
"(Today, Teddy Roosevelt would probably
be a Democrat.)"
ck: Maybe. I see him as the unlikely yet enthusiastic president of the NRA.
Carol
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From: "Eric Yost" <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Omar: Wow. I think that I read The Stranger when I was
> seventeen.
>
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> Eric: Ditto. I read it in high school. Read _Nausea_ first, and was (at
> the time) disappointed that Camus wasn't as dark as old Jean-Paul.
>
>
> Omar: Still, for a US President to actually read a book, that is certainly
> newsworthy.
>
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> Eric: Many of the more educated or literary US Presidents have been dupes
> of their more cunning counterparts. Wilson, for example, gave away the
> store to Lloyd George and Clemenceau, setting the stage for WW2. Theodore
> Roosevelt probably best combined literary-intellectual interests with
> broader experience. (Today, Teddy Roosevelt would probably be a Democrat.)
>
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