Re: ... and an apolitical writer

From: James Rovira <jrovira@drew.edu>
Date: Tue Jul 29 2003 - 10:19:09 EDT

Gah. I give up. Can you post a direct link to the article? I'm looking
at July 29th's Guardian, btw.

This is a bit off my point, though, as I'm not arguing for deliberate
political activism. I'm thinking more along the lines of where he
spends his money and time.

Jim

Scottie Bowman wrote:

> Another of those feeble coincidences: the milestones whereby
> I seem to measure my life. I'd just fired off my last when post
> when I came upon a column in today's Guardian
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/)
> by the novelist DJ Taylor knocking the utter futility of The Writer
> who hopes to assert his 'committment' through manifestos,
> round robins, joint declarations & so on; when he had best busy
> himself getting his own patch of garden free of weeds.
>
> Scottie B.
>
>

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