Sontag
Some writers supply the solid virtues of a husband: reliability, intelligibility, generosity, decency. There are other writers in whom one prizes the gifts of a lover, gifts of temperament rather than of moral goodness. Notoriously, women tolerate qualities in a lover — moodiness, selfishness, unreliability, brutality — that they would never... See more
A.O. SCOTT • How Susan Sontag Taught Me to Think
Susan Sontag in “Camus’ Notebooks”. Just. So worthy of being a card.
The furor she sparked with a few paragraphs written for The New Yorker after the Sept. 11 attacks — words that seemed obnoxiously rational at a time of horror and grief — had not yet died down.
A.O. SCOTT • How Susan Sontag Taught Me to Think
The world often dictates that there is a right way - to think, to feel, to be. To grieve. Perform any of this in deviation from what’s deemed acceptable, and suddenly, you become unacceptable. But what’s the point in living in a time of free speech and an opinion at every corner if what you truly feel can actually find little place in the world?
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