[lit-ideas] Re: Sunday Poem
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 16:54:37 -0500
> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 1/22/2006 3:09:03 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Sunday Poem
>
> A very good poem with its sidebar into Tolstoyan
> views of history!
>
Tolstoy? I imagine you mean his pacifism? I think Tolstoy may have seen
war as farce because of its pointlessness. Napoleon conquers the world and
winds up isolated on an island. There's irony if not outright cosmic humor
in that. Likewise Hitler. Perhaps now B... never mind.
> Reminds me of a man I met in Pennsylvania. He was
> originally from the Netherlands. His family was
> killed by Allied bombing in World War II. He
> became an American citizen, and was an insurance
> salesman. I asked him if he blamed the Allies for
> the tragedy and he said, "No, no. That had to be
> done."
>
> My take is that Osama has several large boils on
> his butt.
>
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