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In the Samizdat Tradition of Writing against the Machine |
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Rude-Truth Essays It is surprising how much, from the habit of regarding writing as an accomplishment, is wasted on form. A very little information or wit is mixed up with a great deal of conventionalism in the style of expressing it, as with a sort of preponderating paste or vehicle. Some life is not simply expressed, but a long-winded speech is made, with an occasional attempt to put a little life into it. —Henry David Thoreau
—Emerson, Ralph Waldo, “Self-Reliance” —Ferré, Léo, “Préface” —Falardeau, Pierre, La Liberté n’est pas une marque de yaourt
—Foucault,
Michel, "Discourse and Truth: the Problematization of Parrhesia"
(six lectures given at the Univ. of California at Berkeley, 1983)
—Goldman, Emma,
“Patriotism, a Menace to Liberty”
—Havel, Vaclav, Open Letters (e.g., “Dear Dr. Husak" and "The Power of the Powerless”) —Hentoff, Nat, "Gag Order on Future Reporters: Teaching Self-Censorship at Columbia"
—Ibsen, Henrik,
An Enemy of the People (Editor's
analysis)
—Levi, Primo, Se questo e un
uomo —Mamet, David, “First Principles" (Writing in Restaurants) —Mencken, H.L., A Mencken Chrestomathy (“Bearers of the Torch,” etc..)
—Nader,
Ralph, “The Concord Principles: An Agenda for a New Initiatory
Democracy”
—Orwell, George, “Prevention of Literature”
—Orwell,
George,
"As I Please"
(Orwell's newspaper column)
—Saramago,
José,
“Hemos llegado al fin de una civilización”
(El País, 11/19/00)
—Solzhenitsyn,
Aleksandr, “1978 graduation ceremony address to Harvard University”
—Thoreau,
Henry David,
“Civil
Disobedience" —Zola, Émile, J'accuse...!
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