06-01-2012, 05:03 PM
John Kelin Wrote:I would be remiss in not pointing out something that troubles me. In this same memoir, which I find well written and entertaining, Hinckle ostensibly defends Jim Garrison while also implying ("...[a] glass of bourbon in his left hand, the scales of justice in his right") he was a drunk (p. 213).
It could just as well be Hinckle painting a portrait of the post-modern reformer -- Dean Martin Luther.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene