No great loss.
-Dan
Posted on 12/28/2004 10:01:32 AM PST by 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."
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
In the movie BULL DURHAM the Kevin Costner character states that he thinks the novels of Susan Sontag are over-rated booshwa, or something to that effect.
Read ANYTHING of hers. She was completely full of herself. If anyone wondered where the stereotype of a Anti-American Liberal Intellectual came from, it was her. She was the mold. I could never understand why she didn't just leave this country, she obviously hated it.
To paraphrase Howard Hughes, Freedom is not an issue for those who have it.
She was a repugnant person. The world is better off without her. If she meets up with Uday wherever she goes, perhaps she might be persuaded that there was indeed evil in this world, and it didn't reside solely under the Stars and Stripes.
Just my opinion, of course.
Thank you. And, thanks for the definition!
Where do you sign up for the Dance of Joy Marathon?
Was she refering to Osama and the Marines ..not
-Dan
Nowt? I don't understand this.
I believe that was Barbara Kingsolver, another dippy author and selection of Oprah's Book Club (THE POISONWOOD BIBLE).
I'm sorry, it may be uncouth to speak ill of the dead, but given this woman's comments and attitude toward our war against terrorism after 9/11, I hope there is indeed a hell and her cellmates are those 19 9/11 murderers. I'm sure they'd welcome her with open arms.
Noam Chomsky, there's a bunk waiting for you there too, pal.
Sorry... naught or nothing. I read too many British novels...
Gotcha. There was a line in Bull Durham (during Crash's whole "I believe" this, "I believe" that speech) where he said, "...I believe the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap..."
That's all I was referring to.
"The evil that men do lives after them, whilst the good is oft interred with their bones."
Shakespeare
Check out this passage from the Times' obit of Susan Sontag:
"Through four decades, public response to Ms. Sontag remained irreconcilably divided. She was described, variously, as explosive, anticlimactic, original, derivative, naïve, sophisticated, approachable, aloof, condescending, populist, puritanical, sybaritic, sincere, posturing, ascetic, voluptuary, right-wing, left-wing, profound, superficial, ardent, bloodless, dogmatic, ambivalent, lucid, inscrutable, visceral, reasoned, chilly, effusive, relevant, passé, ambivalent, tenacious, ecstatic, melancholic, humorous, humorless, deadpan, rhapsodic, cantankerous and clever. No one ever called her dull."
In fact, a 2000 piece in London's Guardian observed: "You read Sontag's early work, and it lies flat and lifeless on the page," which would seem to refute the claim that "no one ever called her dull." Maybe Sandomir should give the Times' obit writers a tutorial in how to speak ill of the dead.
-- BEST OF THE WEB TODAY, December 29, 2004
As rationalization for intervention in Yugoslavia, Sontag condemned the supposed systematic rape of Moslem women. Using Google, perhaps someone else will have better luck finding a peep out of her regarding stuff like this:
'We Want to Make a Light Baby'
Arab Militiamen in Sudan Said to Use Rape as Weapon of Ethnic Cleansing
By Emily Wax
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, June 30, 2004; Page A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16001-2004Jun29.html
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