Tuesday, October 07, 2008

Great Regulars: Does my rambling thus far have anything to do

with [Horace] Engdahl's comments? Let's take the phrases "too isolated" and "too insular." Well. I suppose geographically we're fairly isolated from Europe. And therefore farther from the Middle East and Africa and China. And this probably has some non-geographical ramifications. Like, I suppose we really don't identify as much with the secular/traditional culture wars going on in Turkey, and maybe we have a completely different concept of the Israel/Palestine situation than the rest of the world.

from Max Ross: The Rake: Cracking Spines: Philip Roth Aint's Gonna Win This One

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