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Friday, 20 July 2012
Ex Ungue Leonem, Or, How You Can Save Yourself Time By Reading The Odd Interview Bookmark and Share

From an interview with a writer named Dave Eggers in The New York Times Book Review, July 15, 2012:

Take a moment to champion unheralded writers. Who do you think is egregiously overlooked or underrated? 

I don’t know if he’s unheralded, but there’s a writer named J. Malcolm Garcia who continually astounds me with his energy and empathy. He writes powerful and lyrical nonfiction from Afghanistan, from Buenos Aires, from Mississippi, all of it urgent and provocative. I’ve been following him wherever he goes.

Posted on 07/20/2012 12:07 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
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20 Jul 2012
Send an emailVy Brant

Urgent and provocative he might be, but is he "Wise and Compelling"?



20 Jul 2012
Send an emailreactionry
Ex Ungue Liar*
Or: Dishonorable Menchu
 
 
I've never met J. Malcolm Garcia but I'd love share my own powerful and lyrical fictional non-fiction over three cups of tea and - who knows? -perhaps found a - tee-hee - Menchu dynasty. I'd love even more to put my beliefs into action in the United States, but I'm afraid of becoming a "pen" (geddit?) pal, spending my final days writing ala another Garcia or another Maya or Mayan, "I Know Why The Caged Stool Pigeon Sings," or "One Hundred Years Of Soledad."
 
Sucking The Energy Out Of
The Lebensraum For La Raza,
Rigormortis Menchu
cc Greg "Mort" Mortenson
 
 
 
Tags: Ex ungue Lenin, Socialist Darwinism, man's nature: red in belief, tooth and claw, "Is 'ungue' like an unguent or balm or did I just dream that?" said Gunnar Myrrhdal while citing the Parable of the Talons as Lex Luthor Talionis in Monty Python's Life of Vidkun, ernste mensch Mortenson thanks Rigoberta for the mention, but she says, "Don't Menchu it," Adolphe Menjou says "Don't mention Menchu's mustache," Adolf "Hilter" says "Don't mention mine to the English," Jim Carrey, star of *Liar, Liar and The Mask, says, "Don't mention Cuban Pete, Mustache Pete or Pakistan" (ht to HF)


21 Jul 2012
Stan

Empathy might be a useful word if it were used to mean understanding how another feels, but without any connotation of well-wishing or benevolence.  A bit like the old-fashioned sensibility perhaps.






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