9/11 wasn't that bad, eh? Well, if SHE had been in one of the buildings when they collapsed...
God Bless the Nobel Committee.
Wow.
9/11 wasn't that bad, eh? Well, if SHE had been in one of the buildings when they collapsed...
God Bless the Nobel Committee.
Wow.
Actually 9/11 wasn't that bad. 6000 people dead. Compare that to WWI,WWII, Civil War, etc., you get the point. Even compared to one day battles, Gettysburg, Normandy, Gallopoli(sp), IwoJima, as far as body counts goes it's pretty low.
Plus it has nothing to do with her age, plenty of young writers are 'weird' and I mean weird as in more intelligent that the rest of the populace, thereby difficult to understand.
Well. . . Actually wrote:
Actually 9/11 wasn't that bad. 6000 people dead...
6000? ~ 3000, right, counting WTC, pentagon and Flight 93?
Yes, it is that bad.
She's 88. She should have been given this Prize 20 years ago, when she probably would have had something better to say.
Thanks, that was great. My grand parents and their siblings displayed that inscoucience when they reached Lessing's age and beyond. I can't wait to be old enough to flow like that.
Tom
Well. . . Actually wrote:
Actually 9/11 wasn't that bad. 6000 people dead. Compare that to WWI,WWII, Civil War, etc., you get the point. Even compared to one day battles, Gettysburg, Normandy, Gallopoli(sp), IwoJima, as far as body counts goes it's pretty low.
Plus it has nothing to do with her age, plenty of young writers are 'weird' and I mean weird as in more intelligent that the rest of the populace, thereby difficult to understand.
In those instances, both sides knew they were at war. On 9/11 only one side did. It wasn't a battle; it was a mass murder.
Not like the Big Hole, Bear Paws, and ... oops.