Here via fiction_theory's rec. Thank you for this excellent post--so true and well-said.
It reminds me a bit of the Pakastani novelist Kamila Shamsie's book Burnt Shadows. You make the same argument she does in fictional form in your essay. And this is a message we need to hear over and over again in as many different way as we can, until it sticks.
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Date: 2010-08-08 09:43 pm (UTC)It reminds me a bit of the Pakastani novelist Kamila Shamsie's book Burnt Shadows. You make the same argument she does in fictional form in your essay. And this is a message we need to hear over and over again in as many different way as we can, until it sticks.