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To: Borges
The Autobiography has always suggested to me that Malcolm was headed towards conservatism at the end of his life. It’s part of why he was killed.

I'm not necessarily sure that Malcolm Little would have been a Tea Party member but he did support the Second Amendment. And his hateful strain of Islam did moderate a tad when he made the trip to Mecca. The movie did take some liberties and wasn't 100% harmonious with Alex Haley's book. One such liberty in the film that made me chuckle is when the FBI was wiretapping Little's phone and an agent remarked, "...this guy's a saint compared to [Martin Luther] King."

As for Das Kapital, I did read the English translation and it was tedious, slow-going but I made it through Marx's plodding, laborious text. I recall that around that same time (decades ago), shortly after finishing Marx's tome, I picked up The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, another voluminous work of 700+ pages. After getting beaten down by Marx's prose, Mann's classic seemed almost like a magazine article in comparison. Or as I now put it, Marx...you're no Mann! :)

131 posted on 05/02/2014 1:23:40 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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To: re_nortex

As for Mann, watch out for ‘Death in Venice’ which you’d probably hate...a decrepit old homosexual painter lusts after a teenage Adonis. BTW I’ll reiterate what I said earlier...Nabokov was no smut peddler. Lolita is not pornographic and doesn’t glorify pedophilia any more than Macbeth glorifies regicide.


132 posted on 05/02/2014 1:32:19 PM PDT by Borges
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