"The great writers of the world have almost always been on the side of the poor, from Dickens to Tolstoy to Balzac to John Steinbeck."
Who does the right have and why is the list so unbalanced?Henry Miller once wrote that a man with his belly full of the classics is an enemy of the human race. Instead of teaching the poor to read, the education people seem to work hard to ensure they don't want to read.
"Percy Bysshe Shelley (whose wife Mary was the daughter of the anarchist William Godwin and the feminist Mary Wollstonecraft), in his passionate poem, “The Mask of Anarchy,” wrote five powerful lines that later, in the early 20 th century United States, would be read aloud by garment workers to one another:
Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you – Ye are many – they are few. http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org/newsletter/2006/news_zinn_fall06.asp ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
