Moral equivalency between economic sanctions on a rogue state like
Iraq and flying hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center? The
suggestion is simply stunning on a day like today. If we can't see the
difference, then surely we are lost.
David Tye
----- Original Message -----
From: "charles_almond_pearson" <charles_almond_pearson@MSN.COM>
To: <PERCY-L@listserv.lsu.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 6:11 PM
Subject: Re: Better than Monday morning?
> Exception: if you're a mother shooing flies away from your dying
> baby in the streets someplace in Iraq, where on average 5000
> people have been dying from UN sanctions since the end of the
> Gulf War, according to a series that ran in the Hartford Courant
> last October.
>
> Don't mean to belittle your observation, Mark, but I felt the US
> supported UN atrocity needs at least as much mention as today's.
>
> Al Pearson
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tarallo, Mark" <Mark.Tarallo@BRIDGE.COM>
> To: <PERCY-L@listserv.lsu.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 5:49 PM
> Subject: Better than Monday morning?
>
>
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I certainly do not want to trivialize today's tragedy and
> deaths, and I
> > sincerely hope that none of you
> > have loved ones that were hurt, but I must say that, as a
> journalist based
> > in Washington who
> > had a busy day "working" the story (a disgusting phrase, I
> know), I must
> > confide that
> > running through my head throughout the workday was the Percy
> concept,
> > War is better tham Monday morning.
> >
> > This came to mind especially in trying to self-assess the
> spirit in which I
> > discussed today's events
> > with concerned friends and family members.
> >
> > It makes one wonder.
> >
> > --Mark
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: David Alan Beck [SMTP:dabeck@IUPUI.EDU]
> > > Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 11:17 PM
> > > To: PERCY-L@listserv.lsu.edu
> > > Subject: Re: Novelists now, in the spirit of Percy
> > >
> > > John,
> > > I agree that DeLillo fits somewhere in the spectrum. Speaking
> of DD,
> > > has anyone had a chance to read the article in this month's
> Atlantic?
> > > There is an article that, for the most part, is arguing that
> the
> > > contemporary authors who are so revered by critics and
> academics, are
> > > wearing the emperor's new clothes. He focuses on DeLillo,
> Cormac McCarthy,
> > > and Paul Auster. I haven't had time to read the entire
> article but did
> > > glance over it. I'll have to admit that, for me, blasting
> away at DeLillo,
> > > one of my favorite living writers, makes me regard him with
> suspicion.
> > > Though he does have a point about the stilted dialogue in the
> works of
> > > these writers, a sin that no one can accuse Percy of. Yet, in
> DeLillo, I
> > > always viewed the "flat" dialogue as part of the theme and
> overall effect
> > > of his works.
> > >
> > > Regardless, I look forward to reading the article (partly due
> to a
> > > co-worker who bought the argument and challenged me to
> respond).
> > >
> > > David Beck
> > >
> > > "The only true joy on earth is to escape from the
> > > prison of our false self, and enter by love into union
> > > with the Life Who dwells and sings within the essence of
> > > every creature and in the core of our own souls."
> > >
> > > -Thomas Merton
> >
>
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