There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists. In the West we become famous effigies as our books lose power to shape and influence...Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.Don Delillo, Mao II
Friday, July 14, 2006
Curious Knots
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