[lit-ideas] Re: Howdy stranger!
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:54:00 -0400
Omar: Wow. I think that I read The Stranger when I was
seventeen.
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.
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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