- fetsiboomsticks: Cultural ghettos are places where we congregate with people just like us. Where we otherise others by affirming ourselves and by actively ennumerating what differences the differences of others.
- frustration is very stimulating. Learning a language, being frustrated that you can't express in fine detail keeps you trying.
- a reader wants to see the manifestation of the identity of the author in the story
- fetsiboomsticks: you are not a creator, an actor takes roles that he 'agrees' with, that he is prepared to endorse, that's what we think.
- multicultural writers are expected to write their culture, English writers are allowed to be more imaginative
- she was prosecuted for words she had written and she objects because it is fiction writers are entitled to their opinions, but it is not politics its fiction, separate things
- fiction is a connector, politics is a divider
- Muslims read books by Palistinians and vice versa, they connect. Politicians stop you from listening
- She likes not knowing what she will write about next or what characters will do in the next ten pages
- Perhaps we should not teach students to write what they know, instead write what we can feel outside of their cultural ghetto
"Here's a novel idea to save the planet: Remove the main cause of its woes - homo sapiens. The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT - pronounced "vehement") proposes the phasing out the human race. "When every human chooses to stop breeding, Earth's biosphere will be allowed to return to its former glory, and all remaining creatures will be free to live, die, and evolve (if they believe in evolution)," offers the movement's website. But 'it's going to take all of us going'." See www.vhemt.org SOURCE: Email invite. I thought I was the only one who thought like this. Everyone I know thanks the universe that I didn't study microbiology. I would have developed a human-specific killer virus. WE are the vermin.
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