thanks dag. i guess that was the kind of details i was looking for because we really don't have the background or the context in which to place his interview. that's the reason i posted it here, so that because you guys are there, i'll know the context and the background better.
btw, big brother was stunning. thanks again, regards, subash On 12/5/06, DagT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure what you meen. He is not my favorite writer, but Sophies world > was a huge hit and has sold in large quantities all over the world. The plot > is something like Philip K. Dick or Jorge Luis Borges could have written, > where the main person turns out to be fiction herself etc, but he has but a > lot of introductory stuff about philosophy into it as well so it is > interesting of you want to refresh your memory in that area. > > After some part of the problems in Israel this year he wrote a text in a > newspaper as a reaction. His prose was not very well chosen and it made a > lot of fuss. I agree with some representativ for Amnesty who said that the > reaction was sound but the wording was clumsy. You can't use a vague and > pompous litterary form in an article in a newspaper discussing this kind of > problems without creating lots of misunderstandings. > > The result was that he was criticied for a lot of opinions he didn't have, > like hating jews in general. In the end I guess he found that when the > questions are of the type "Have you stopped hitting your wife" you'd better > just shut up. > > This was my version of it, anyway. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
