Sunday, October 03, 2004
October 3, 2004
“Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.”
- E. M. Cioran (1911 – 1995), Rumanian-born French philosopher: ‘Strangled Thoughts’ in “The New Gods (Le Mauvais Démigurge)”, 1969, tr. 1974.
“Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven, its literal-mindedness, its rambunctious good cheer… its anti-intellectualism… its puerile hymns… and its faith-healing… are made to order for King Kid America.”
- Florence King (b. 1936), America author: ‘Good King Herod” in “Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye”, 1989.
“It doesn’t say much for human nature to see what happened with the American experiment in freedom. It’s been taken advantage of so much that now there is nothing left.”
- Robert Crumb (b. 1943), American cartoonist: interview in “The Apex Treasury of Underground Comics”, ed. Susan Goodrick and Don Donahue, 1974.
“Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.”
- E. M. Cioran (1911 – 1995), Rumanian-born French philosopher: ‘Strangled Thoughts’ in “The New Gods (Le Mauvais Démigurge)”, 1969, tr. 1974.
“Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven, its literal-mindedness, its rambunctious good cheer… its anti-intellectualism… its puerile hymns… and its faith-healing… are made to order for King Kid America.”
- Florence King (b. 1936), America author: ‘Good King Herod” in “Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye”, 1989.
“It doesn’t say much for human nature to see what happened with the American experiment in freedom. It’s been taken advantage of so much that now there is nothing left.”
- Robert Crumb (b. 1943), American cartoonist: interview in “The Apex Treasury of Underground Comics”, ed. Susan Goodrick and Don Donahue, 1974.
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