How about a moral equivalency between the bombing of a population
center, Hiroshima, and today's bombings. Live by the sword, die
by the sword.
Al Pearson
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Tye" <dtye@VSS-INCORP.COM>
To: <PERCY-L@listserv.lsu.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 7:11 PM
Subject: Re: Better than Monday morning?
> 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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