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Don Sailorman on April 7, 2006 - 9:36am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Thanks--glad to see other literary types on board.

Much can be learned from literature, and indeed I think for the Deep Universal Eternal Truths (DUETs) literature is at least as important as science.

KIM is a remarkable book, and if both the Russian and American leaders had read all of Kipling, then I doubt that either great power would have blundered into Afghanistan, as both of them did.

Also, IMO, Kipling's famous poem that begins, "East is East and West is West, . . ." is one of the most powerful antiracist statements ever made.

Currently I am rereading all of Joseph Conrad. Ohmigod, nothing is more relevant than "Heart of Darkness" to what is now happening in Nigeria.  

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sr on April 7, 2006 - 11:36am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Do not fail to read V.S. Naipaul's "A Bend in the River", a perfect companion novel to "Heart of Darkness".
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Don Sailorman on April 7, 2006 - 12:02pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I love V.S. Naipul's works.

Be sure also to read his classic, "North of South," but then again, you probably already have.

Brilliant guy, and iconoclastic to the max.

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Roger on April 7, 2006 - 6:42pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
;-)
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