No comment although I have them.

[Mark Kohut]

Second.

She becomes a self-created protestor against Israel; giving up some
unneeded royalties but more
accessibility in a language she must love for its possible readers as she
would any others but which
she tells Israel I withhold until you change your ways.  Written in
English, which so many in Israel and the whole world know
is available.

Mark

On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 6:32 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> I get that we can meaningfully and simultaneously speak out of more than
> one side of our mouths.  Like, a book can be dumb and shallow, but to deny
> access via translation is boycotting potential readers (of dumb and shallow
> stuff), thus hurting them?
>
> But, yes it is intellectual content that presumably the author values as
> such.  I figure she thinks the left-behind readers will survive w/o
> becoming indignant Trumpers.  I think she figures the book’s popularity
> might spur some potential readers to anger at Israel, right?  Because she
> expressly declares her opposition to Israel’s injustices as her motive.
>
> Also, if a “celebrity” can turn a light onto injustice, it has more juice
> than little us.  And maybe other authors will follow suit.  That’s the only
> power boycotts have.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 6:06 PM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > My comment? (NP, nesspa?)
> >
> > Dumb and shallow. But then: Conversations with Friends is a shallow book
> > in my opinion.
> >
> > Boycott potential readers because you think a government is wrong, maybe
> > crazy? You just had Trump, didn't you?
> >
> > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
> >
> > Am Mo., 11. Okt. 2021 um 21:55 Uhr schrieb Mark Kohut <
> > mark.kohut at gmail.com>:
> >
> >> No comment, so others might.
> >>
> >> Sometimes I squawk/squeak alone.
> >>
> >> I, too, think that a very successful---in sales, she's selling faster
> like
> >> electric vehicles---writer, also critically if dividedly praised and
> >> dissed
> >> uses her fame to
> >> make a statement against Israel, that apartheid, international
> >> law-breaking
> >> state, then GOOD. More should do it.
> >>
> >> On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 3:44 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Why no comment?  This is a place for opinion.  As for me, I say Bravo!
> >> I
> >> > think Israel deserves full apartheid treatment right now.  And too
> many
> >> > people are afraid to say so.   There!  I said it.
> >> >
> >> > David Morris
> >> >
> >> > On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 3:25 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >>
> https://forward.com/opinion/476513/why-wont-sally-rooney-allow-her-latest-novel-to-be-translated-into-hebrew/
> >> >> --
> >> >> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
> >> >>
> >> >
> >
> >
> >> --
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> >>
> >
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