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[Steve Maas]

More playfully than ironically. Steve Maas

Michael Joseph wrote:
In response considering the comment if intended ironically:

In reply to my:
>Well, that persuades me.  Steve Maas

>Michael Joseph quotes Kundera:
>"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."

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