Doug writes: >But Swift wrote that in response to intense class and colonial cruelty. Why was his tone appropriate to the 18th century and not the late 20th? Seems to me our depoliticization in the late 20th isn't unrelated to the lack of Swifts (or Menckens even) today. Today we're either numb, cynical, or hypersensitive.< It is interesting that the anti-abortion folks published an edition of Swift's "Modest Proposal," making an explicit link between his satyric proposal that we eat babies and abortion. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://clawww.lmu.edu/Faculty/JDevine/jdevine.html Bombing DESTROYS human rights. US/NATO out of Serbia!
