Re: Koestler's Demons

["George Pennefather" <poseidon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Talking about literature...What do you think of Francis Stuart who just died.

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George Pennefather

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----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Pugliese <debsian@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2000 3:56 PM
Subject: Re: Koestler's Demons


The accounts I've read of Koestler's behavior, from reviews of the book when
published in Britain , cross over the line where "chronic womanizing" ends
and rape begins. Esp. one story of Koestler raping the wife of some Labour
Party bigwig on the kitchen floor.
   On Darkness at Noon, yes a great book. As likewise is Ezra Pound, Cantos
or T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland or his Four Quartets, are great poems, which
the fascist politics of the first or the reactionary politics of Eliot, in
terms of an aesthetic judgement, are irrelevent. Didn't Marx
say that the novels of Balzac, a reactionary,
were superior to the novels of a Eugene Sue, a popular socialist writer of
the day?
                                 Michael Pugliese

P.S. Though, folks like Hitchens and Clarence Page read and in Hitchens
case, ocasionally write for ITT, I wouldn't guess that it is high on radar
screen of those bourgeois journalists.
Saw James Weinstein and Salim Muwaakil, on CSPAN though on two occasions.
Get that rolodex of enemies of the people updated!