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• • 16 Aug 06
  • 1:38 pm

  Hemingway would be pleased. Although he was incredibly chauvinistic,he wrote for women. Bill Keller is wrong, in my opinion, non-fiction is useful and sometimes informative, but real ideas, and inspiration leap from good works of fiction. Fiction enlivens the mind and the spirit. Most non-fiction puts them to sleep. One wonders if President Bush's reading of Camus' novel, "The Stranger", will inspire useful change. Perhaps, but alas he is not a woman.

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• • 17 Aug 06
  • 10:21 am

  Hmmm, interesting comments, "gooddoctor",but a good read to me is a book that ignites something, brain, heart, soul, etc. Rarely do mediocre works ignite much of anything. Yes, Kerouac was boring because he could not see beyond the cult. Hemingway is never boring because you are always a party to the plot. Dickens captures all of you including ones indignation. Mark Twain, liberates one's humanity and Kurt Vonnegut twists our minds and consciences.

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• • 17 Aug 06
  • 1:07 pm

  Hey Tommi, first, keep the faith. The longest road to getting published is the easiest for the writer but the roughest path to print. That way is by writing from the heart to the heart, regardless of subject. The thoughts, the words, the connectivity fly out of you. Throw plot strategies and marketing manners aside and just write. You will know when it is working. As for those publishers and agents, profit rules, but they all know a story that has come from the heart, and they also know that those books always sell. Yes, selling not art is their concern. …

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• • 22 Jun 06
  • 7:32 am

  Loud, loud applause for Christopher Hayes. How fortunate you sat where you did on your flight. Lou is right, labor makes capitalism live and breathe. When I worked in the aerospace industry we were contractually encouraged by DoD to bring in unemployed, unskilled people from our area and train and employ them. We did, and in the process created a lot of Lous and those Lous made the engines on the Huey helicopter thrive and in thriving a lot of my buddies in Vietnam made it home. What really stuck with me though was the degree of pure pride that populated …

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• • 20 Jun 06
  • 1:09 pm

  There is always talk about cutting off the demand, but the big money for the mainline drug producers/distributors does not come from street buyers, it comes from the cloaked investors who are upstanding (?) citizens just making a quick profit. These are the real criminals and the small-time, non-violent users are just grist for their mills. How do we let such tragedies endure?

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