[lit-ideas] Re: A Spirit of Intellectualism
- From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:57:43 +0100
Thank you, Eric. I can't read the speech now, but most certainly
will, later.
May I say that this is better than your responses re the Pope?
(Yes, I may.)
Judy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Yost" <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 5:48 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] A Spirit of Intellectualism
> Judy: now back to not bothering
>
> Here's Joseph Brodsky, the master of not bothering, from his
> Nobel Prize acceptance speech. (The last time I saw Brodsky,
> less than a year before his death, was in a small gallery
> space in SoHo, maybe six people and Brodsky. Flaunting the
> no smoking sign, and also flaunting the obviously prescribed
> choice of Merit UltraLight filter cigarettes, Brodsky would
> periodically produce a cigarette, rip off its filter, and
> light up. I mean, why bother?)
>
>
> Language and, presumably, literature are things that are
> more ancient and inevitable, more durable than any form of
> social organization.
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