19-03-2013, 07:32 PM
John Kelin Wrote:I have taken the liberty of re-posting Charles Drago's 1996 essay "In the Blossom of our Sins" on my web site:
http://home.comcast.net/~johnkelin/blossom.html
I had a version on my hard disk that had very horrid, nineties-era HTML formatting. I've spruced it up a little.
Charles, I hope this is okay with you. I think its themes generally bear upon this thread. If you would like me to remove it, however, I will.
But if it is okay, then I invite you, Charles, to read it over and make any editorial corrections/updates/whatever that you see fit.
Sometimes I have a great notion to collect a handful of such essays, accessible via links on a main page, as material for interested readers in this, the fiftieth anniversary year.
Or jump in the river and drown.
Just kidding. Leadbelly on my mind today.
It's fine. I'm flattered.
But please use the updated version that I am sending to you now via your private e-mail address.
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