Friday, August 13, 2010

Finished one and started another Solzhenitsyn novel. Not usually inclined towards fiction, but this is amazing stuff. This one includes two letters he wrote to whatever organization writers had to be in to be published. Sayin to hell with you and censorship, basically. Bravery, courage and will beyond anything I could know. Im not 1% of this man. Who is? An argument for the goodness of humanity right in the midst of the worst of it. Cannot speak highly enough. Even I have no more to say about it. If only this planet still had intellectuals of this independance, power and gall. P.C. is the latest form of the Soviet self-censorship he was exiled for attacking. And it produces the same spinelessness he speaks of. Soviet, fundamentalist or left-wing campus speech codes, to hell with all limitations on human expression!

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