It's About AMERICA!!!!!!!

[Michael Joseph]

Persuade? Why would I want to do anything like that? Consider Kundera's
thought on persuasion. "a person who thinks should not try to persuade
others of his belief; that is what puts him on the road to a system; on
the lamentable road of the 'man of conviction';  politicians like to call
themselves that; but what is a conviction? it is a thought that has come
to a stop, that has congealed, and the 'man of conviction' is a man
restricted; experimental thought seeks not to persuade but to inspire; to
inspire another thought, to set thought moving; that is why a novelist
must systematically desystematize his thought, kick at the barricade that
he himself has erected around his ideas." If that seems irrelevant, I do
apologize for placing it before you.


Michael


On Fri, 9 May 2003, Malignd wrote:

> <<I wonder if it's useful at this stage of the
> discussion to recall that within recent memory
> homeland had a slightly different meaning, and one
> which Pynchon would certainly remember.>>
>
> It's entirely useless.  Read the posts of those you
> might hope to persuade.
>
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