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=> Re: Mondoweiss -- William Blum: the dissident and the style
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-- The best comment on the thread regarding Blum: Gary Corseri January 21, 2017, 9:42 pm It's a fine article, and William Blum definitely deserves the notice and the praise. I've known Bill Blum for about a dozen years: we've broken bread together, attended rallies together (for the best causes!); I posted my own interview with him at CounterPunch and other sites. I agree, Blum can be witty. Non-conventionalism comes naturally to him. It is a kind of Jewish humor, I guess–irony raised to a higher level. But, it's world-experienced polished wit, humor and knowledge, too. As Sayeed notes in this article: it's wit backed up with formidable research and scholarship. Blum's notes are meticulous–as one would expect from a real historian and truth-seeker. Sayeed alludes to Mark Twain in this article. (I'm a fan of Mark Twain, too!) Something Twain wrote befits Blum: "No god and no religion can survive ridicule. No church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field and live." (Notebook, 1888) Long live the Truth-seekers and Truth disseminators! - See more at: http://mondoweiss.net/2017/01/william-dissident-style/#sthash.lt0Rej3m.QNU6DIWR.dpuf --------------------- |
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