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Wladyslaw Lizon, Member of Parliament for Mississauga Cooksville East (my own riding), is back in the news. Good reading: Nobel Laureates Salute Bradley Manning, by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mairead Maguire and Adolfo Pérez Esquivel. To remember why Bradley Manning is being persecuted, go here, and watch the video. This weekend, people in more than 70 cities around the world will stand in solidarity with Manning and mark his 1,000th day in jail without trial. While the real criminals go unpunished - indeed, while they lead lives of wealth and privilege - a courageous whistleblower is persecuted. Manning's "crime" is exposing the truth about the murder of civilians by US forces in Iraq. It will be a court martial: his accusers will be the only judge and jury. In all that time, Bradley Manning has been in prison.įor 62 days, he was held in a cage in Kuwait.įor 265 days, he was held in solitary confinement.Īnd when Manning does receive a hearing, it will not be a trial. Think of where you were one thousand days ago, and all you have done since then. I was in Europe pre-Allan, with my friend NN, in 19. * Allan and I have been to Europe together in 19. Finishing school, good job prospects, and travel? As George Costanza once said, I'm busting. We have three weeks total, and about 2-1/2 weeks in Spain.Įven planning and thinking about travel makes me happy, brings a lift to my mood and my thoughts. We'll have a good 4 or 5 days to explore Barcelona, then we'll pick up a car and do a lot of driving! The Alhambra, the great Mosque and Cathedral of Cordoba, Roman ruins, at least one pueblo blanco, the Bilbao Guggenheim and hopefully cave paintings in Basque Country, art in Madrid, and who knows what else. That's a promise it will never hurt to keep.įrom Paris we go to Barcelona. On our last trip to Paris*, I vowed that whenever we were in Europe for any reason, we would go to Paris. After two days in London, we'll take the Eurostar train to Paris and spend two days there. We have a quick stop in London to see some friends, people we originally know from New York, one as far back as our Brooklyn days, who we haven't seen in a long time. I'm very excited! Since I know this will be asked in comments, here's the plan. I've wanted to go to Spain for many years, and this is our first major trip in a few years, as well. We love Almodovar, and have seen most of his films, but maybe we will go back to valium in the gazpacho with "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown". And of course we will re-watch both "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" and the 1994 film "Barcelona". Forster sounds more like a Victorian, while Hemingway sounds like a modern man.Īlso in anticipation of Barcelona, two people have recommended Carlos Ruiz Zafon's The Shadow of the Wind, a literary thriller that takes place in Barcelona (and is now waiting for me at the library!). All three are roughly contemporaries, but Forster and Lawrence's writing belongs to an older school of thought and style.
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Think of Hemingway's writing next to, say, E. His writing might even seem ordinary now, but in its day, it swept out the old and ushered in the new. It's almost impossible for a contemporary reader to appreciate how different Hemingway was in his own time, and how influential. I also had forgotten the simple power and beauty of Hemingway's writing. You see personal failings and moral dilemmas, and the many compromises a movement faces while trying to live its politics. But while For Whom the Bell Tolls is obviously sympathetic to the anti-fascists, Hemingway is still clear-eyed and unromantic about them. (I imagine the anti-fascists are more properly called counter-revolutionaries, because Franco's military takeover was a revolution.) Hemingway was part of the famed Abraham Lincoln Brigades, Americans who fought for the Spanish Republic, to try to stop the fascist threat to Europe and the world. The Spanish Civil War itself is about resistance to fascism, more a story of rebellion and revolution than armies and battlefields. The voice is warm and generous, and he writes with great sensitivity and respect, and keen insight into human motivations. Maybe it was his love of bullfighting and hunting, or his personal image as a tough guy, but I was expecting bellicosity and possibly sexism. I had mis-remembered Hemingway as a harsher, more macho voice. I haven't read Hemingway since the 1980s, and I'm enjoying it much more than I expected to. In anticipation of an upcoming trip to Spain, I'm re-reading For Whom The Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway's novel based on his experiences in the Spanish Civil War.