Our president himself suffers from every kind of poverty except that of money; but enough of that, or Anne will be sending us to the off-topic on-line poker casino hell.

But speaking of the Irish (weren't we? I guess this should be a separate thread), I have to say that Whittemore just nails Joe's character exactly where I would like to think my ancestors' descendants should be: between jokes, so to speak. Between the stage Irishman (who only leaves home so he can get drunk and sing about how much he misses it) and the bomb-throwers (who are afflicted with Irish Alzheimer's disease - you forget everything but the grudge). Joe has seen enough to make him give up and join one of the above, but he doesn't. He holds good and evil within himself and sees the possibility of both within others - and lives with it. That's imagination enough for anyone.

Irish John Duddy went the distance last night and won. Do you suppose he has a Beare in his family tree?

Bill

--Previous Message--
: I must say that I think that Disch's
: accusation that there is a "poverty of
: immagination" in Whittemore to be one
: of the more outlandish assertions I've ever
: heard that haven't come from the mouth of my
: president (I'm from the US).
: -Pat
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