Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Janet wrote:

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>it only stands to reason that i would interpret your remarks as more indicative of your >abilities to formulate, much less express your personal bias's as any exceptional quality to >them:)
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> Your premise makes no grammatical sense, and even worse, it contains a misuse of the apostrophe.
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> Janet
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The horror! the horror!

"The themes explored by Burgess in The Wanting Seed seem all-too-relevant at the dawn of this twenty-first century, as land and resources dwindle and the Earth’s population continues to rise steadily, with the world’s most powerful empires engaged in an undeclared, undefined war on an Enemy whose name is simply ‘Terror’. Is it possible that even now, the masses are being manipulated into support for a pragmatic, never-ending war necessary to sustain a quality of life that seems otherwise unsustainable? Perhaps, as Burgess suggests, the masses won’t have it any other way. Perhaps human existence, for most, really is little more than sex and death—one forever demanding the other."
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JL