--- Allan Guthrie <
allan@allanguthrie.co.uk> wrote: I don't drive a car.
Does that make me an anarchist?
Al
**************************************************** No,
probably just a New Yorker. New York City is the only place
I've been to in the US where people can actually survive
without an automobile. In other circumstances you have to
rely on others to cart you around like a sack of sugar. When
I was a kid, every family had a car. Today, every member of
the family has a car. Transportation is the single most
dangerous problem in the US on at least 3 different
fronts.
Patrick King
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Patrick King
> To:
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 10:07 PM
> Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: can noir writers
advocate
> social reform?
>
>
> I think we have a different view of what
is
> political
> and what is not. I see the decision of what
kind
> of
> car a person drives as a very political one.
One's
> car
> is a much more important comment about status
than
> are
> their shoes or trousers. Very few things a
person
> does
> fails to telegraph their political pov. I
don't
> see
> much of a break between a person's
political
> attitude
> and the rest of their lives. Certainly a
writer,
> intentionally or not cannot fail to expose
their
> political views in all their work. Whether
we're
> talking about Thompson or Wodehouse both
are
> making
> valid and pointed political statements. With
those
> two, I suspect they were in agreement most of
the
> time
> as different as their work appears on the
surface.
>
> Patrick King
> --- Michael Robison <
miker_zspider@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Patrick King wrote:
> >
> > I'm sorry it seems a stretch to you. It
seems
> like
> > ordinary plot line analysis to me. If
a
> character is
> > not a symbol for human condition that many
can
> > relate
> > to, why include him?
> >
> > ***********
> > You're simply begging the question by
choosing
> to
> > define everything as political.
> >
> > miker
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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