How did we miss that?

30Jan07

I am a constant and addicted reader. Also I am not a snob. Fortunatly this allows me to waste my time in grocery stores and the dentist reading People and the new overly large TV guide. (what is that about?) I also have enough time these days that I can get to the library and look at the New York Review of Books and the NAtion etc.,etc. (said the King). Susan Sontag died in 2005 and now with Annie Leibovitz’ new book we all get the word that the two were great friends. OK, I get that this is a private matter but what you are the great American intellectual and you produce great (again) pronouncements and discussions about the essence of existence isn’t being less then honest about something so basic deceptive. Sontag has written so much about being the outsider, and Death as a metaphor using AIDS that I feel cheated. If I had the energy I would reread some stuff but I feel like she has wasted my brain enough. Like politicians, intellectuals need to come clean to be effective. I forgive the trespasses if informed, but never if dribbled out