[lit-ideas] Re: losers
- From: "Mirembe Nantongo" <nantongo@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 17:10:52 +0100
That would be "no longer includes *only* the catastrophic connotations" etc.
Getting old in Tunis, MN
Gratuitous poetry:
From "Keeping Going" by Seamus Heaney
That scene, with Macbeth helpless and desperate
In his nightmare -- when he meets the hags again
And sees the apparitions in the pot --
I felt at home with that one, all right. Hearth,
Steam and ululation, the smoky hair
Curtaining a cheek. "Don't go near bad boys
In that college your bound for. Do you hear me?
Do you hear me speaking to you? Don't forget!"
And then the potstick quickening the gruel,
The steam crown swirled, everything intimate
And fear-swathed brightening for a moment,
Then going dull and fatal and away.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mirembe Nantongo" <nantongo@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 5:00 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] losers
>A propos of not much, here is a Jonathan Yardley review of a book called
>"BORN LOSERS: A History of Failure in America"
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43081-2005Jan27.html
>
> The author seems to argue that the definition of failure no longer
> includes the catastrophic connotations (familiar to such as Macbeth and
> his lady, perhaps) it once did and has become much wider, now embracing
> people & situations no-one would have begun to think of as failures
> previously. Hm. If anyone actually reads it, hope they give us a book
> report.
>
> Regards, MN
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