Quote of the Day

Dave Monroe monropolitan at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 1 09:08:19 CST 2007


--- Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:

> "Social reform?  The world was technically under
> martial law.  As for art, I'm not sure I know good
> from bad.  But artists to some extent have to
> reflect the temper of the times.  Paintings and
> sculpture were full of torture and dark brooding;
> movies seemed static and plotless; music was
> dominated by nostalgic revivals of earlier forms;
> architecture was mainly concerned with finding
> someplace to put everybody; literature was damn
> near incomprehensible.  Most people seemed to
> spend most of their time trying to find ways to
> outwit the government ...." --Joe Haldeman, The
> Forever War, Pt. 2, Ch. 9 (1974)

That's from the year 2007 in the novel, by the way ...
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