[lit-ideas] Re: The torture graph
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 19:46:26 -0400
Waging war by looking through a prism is pretty creative. More creativity:
we're going to make ourselves safer by getting 1.2 billion people mad at
us. That one merits a Darwin Award.
> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 4/8/2006 5:21:50 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The torture graph
>
> Ursula quotes Carl: If we've been bamboozled long
> enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the
> bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding
> out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us.
>
> Like jihad, this saying works both ways. If you
> get bamboozled long enough, you also tend to
> reject any evidence that you're NOT being
> bamboozled. It's more ego-syntonic to assume that
> there's only bamboozling going on.
>
>
> Eric
> ___
> Literature was born not the day when a boy crying
> wolf, wolf came running out of the Neanderthal
> valley with a big gray wolf at his heels:
> literature was born on the day when a boy came
> crying wolf, wolf and there was no wolf behind
> him. That the poor little fellow because he lied
> too often was finally eaten up by a real beast is
> quite incidental. But here is what is important.
> Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in
> the tall story there is a shimmering go-between.
> That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature.
>
> -Vladimir Nabokov, "Good Readers and Good Writers"
>
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