Long ago, in another life, I gave a paper at Hamilton College in upstate New York. The conference had been called for the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ezra Pound (a graduate of the college), and the theme of the conference was something like Literature, Politics, and Economics. Most of the attendees were professors of Literature. I am sure I was the only economist, except for one of the keynote speakers, who seemed to know little of either economics or literature. The title of my paper was “Colonialism, Imperialism, and Revolution in Four novels by Graham Greene.” The four novels were The Power and the Glory, The Quiet American, The Heart of the Matter, and The Comedians. The talk went reasonably well, although my take on the novels seemed to shock some of the professors. I felt somewhat awkward, coming from Johnstown, PA to this bastion of privilege, but I had a pretty good time. Students served a fancy lunch. I asked one of them, a young woman what she was studying. She said English. I asked her what she would do after graduation. Without missing a beat, she answered, “banking.”
I loved the novels of Graham Greene, and this article Louis posted is excellent. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#7150): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/7150 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/81226986/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
