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31.5.04


MAIS BIBLIOFILIA

Jean Moorcroft Wilson / Cecil Woolf (Ed.) , Authors take sides on Iraq and the Gulf War, Cecil Woolf Publishers, 2004

Um vasto conjunto de intelectuais responde à simples pergunta se estão ou não de acordo com a guerra no Iraque. A resposta é a que se esperava – na sua esmagadora maioria, são contra. Meia dúzia é a favor, quase sempre em breves palavras, contrastando com a prolixidade e o tom afirmativo dos que são contra. O tom é interessante, para além dos argumentos.

Das raras respostas a favor, saliento duas. A de D. M. Thomas, que começa assim:

"I would much rather trust the views of taxi-drivers on any matter of great political importance than those of writers and intellectuals. History shows that the latter almost always get it wrong."

e a de Alan Sillitoe, que cita (parece que erradamente quanto à referência de origem…) um poema, "The End of Violent Men" de John Milton

Oh, how comely it is and how reviving
To the Spirits of just men long opprest!
When God into the hands of their deliverer
Puts invincible might
To quell the might of the Earth, th' oppressour,
The brute and boist'rous force of violent men...
He all their Ammunition
And feats of War defeats
With plain Heroic magnitude of mind...
Their Armories and Magazins contemns,
Renders them useless, while
With winged expedition
Swift as the lightning glance he executes
His errand on the wicked, who surpris'd
Lose their defence distracted and amaz'd.


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