Susan Sontag, author and activist, dies at 71

AP ^ | 12/28/4

[SmithL]

NEW YORK -- Susan Sontag, the author, activist and self-defined "zealot of seriousness" whose voracious mind and provocative prose made her a leading intellectual of the past half century, died Tuesday. She was 71.

Sontag died Tuesday morning, officials at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center said. She had been treated for breast cancer in the 1970s.

Sontag called herself a "besotted aesthete," an "obsessed moralist" and a "zealot of seriousness."

[Fiddlstix]

I'm so sad, so very sad.
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[Lonesome in Massachussets]

"The white race is the cancer of human history"

Author Susan Sontag, Partisan Review, Winter 1967, p. 57.


Here epitaph.

[Niteranger68]

From what I can tell, this woman had been educated well beyond her intelligence.

[wardaddy]

who's the other one....reminded me of her...oh yeah...Erica Jong....Fear of Flying.

Man...NYC is full of these prematurely gray old angry fembots...reminds me of when I lived there.....upper West Side daze....they would set up leaflet stands at 72nd and Broadway on weekends

Why are so many of the old NY fembot vanguard Jewish?

I doubt it's simply because they are in Manhattan which is sizably Jewish..

Germaine Greer was an exception....Faludi and McKinnon too?

Is there a dynamic in Jewish women at play?

[Publius6961]

Who cares?

[justshutupandtakeit]

Your interpretation of what she said is completely wrong.
Courage IS a neutral virtue and can be showed by evil as well as good people. She is NO WAY justified the acts of the terrorists (in that quote.)

[anniegetyourgun]

I've always understood the death-etiquette thing to be about the inability of the dead to now defend themselves. But frankly, I don't get it either, TH....their lives and statements speak for them....even after death.

[HMFIC]

Thanks.

Yet ANOTHER grave I'll have to void my bladder on in my travels around this big ol globe.

[Loyalist]

While red flags fly at half-staff over Berkeley, Ithaca and Madison, and NPR broadcasts hours of eulogies by Noam Chomsky, Erica Jong and Stanley Fish, most Americans simply shrugged and said, "Damn! I thought they said Susan Sarandon!"

[Sociopathocracy]

Good riddance. Another hero The Left, the true cancer of human history, bites the dust.

Hopefully, she's complaining to Joe Stalin about the heat.

[KC_Conspirator]

Good Riddance.

[MNnice]

Another commie bites the dust.

[Admin Moderator]

#12 removed, because of Condé Nast complaint.

[kitkat]

>>>I try not to speak ill of the dead, so I won't.>>>

***Why not? Where does this come from?***

Weeelll, some goody goody decided that we shouldn't speak ill of the dead because they can't defend themselves.

But any time the NY Times takes up the cause of the dead, I feel completely, entirely free to repudiate them.

I pray for the soul of Susan Sonntag, but I rejoice that the witch is no longer free to spew her hatred of the U.S.

[weegee]

Tim Robbins was overheard to comment, "Well, then who the hell did I shack up with???"

[Rodney King]

Sorry 'bout that.

[blurb]

>>Sontag called herself a "besotted aesthete,"
an "obsessed moralist" and a "zealot of seriousness."

Are you sure she didn't mean to say "besotted atheist?"

[dakine]

and someone coming on the thread saying the predictable...

[Mad Mammoth]

Susan Sontag, dead at 71.

Susan's little known younger sister, Maggie Maytag, went on to become an industrious and patriotic home appliance designer, whose name became synonymous with the Sears in-store brand of washing machines, dryers, kitchen ranges and dishwashers. Maggie, when hearing news of her older sister's death, said "Guess I can take her off of my 2005 Christmas gift list now. Adios Sis."