-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 17 May 2010 08:58 PM, Heather Madrone wrote: > I watched the clouds arrive, pile their black masses against the black > mountains, and dump their bumper crops of rain on the vivid green > muskegs. I read my way slowly through the contents of the town library. > I walked endlessly. I went to work. I came home. I watched the clock > change. I experimented with the sound of my voice. > > It was not a productive time in my life, but it was a time of growth and > experimentation. I vividly experienced what was going on around me.
I'm just wondering about this 'Waldenification' of sorts. It would seem that continued engagement with the body politic cannot be sustained alongside hermitic, disconnected life. And what of the responsibility of intellectuals (regardless of the class they belong to) to engage in public debates? To inform themselves, to analyse, and to speak out in turn? Aren't there any benefits to be found in anti-hermitism? And such a contrast between Heather's "not a productive time" vs. Shoba's productivity. It seems they're referring to different things when they talk of being productive. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkvxdKsACgkQ7JoSBR1cXwdlbwCfZgAp4E8b5odqN1fyXE4z9dBU OVYAn2LJeMBetErrQzLlmpgIl2eR4Dbl =oJii -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
