America Has A History Of Political Isolation

Other Wars End Eventually In Victory, Defeat Or Exhaustion, But The War Between Men And Women Goes On Forever.

But I Think That Sometimes, When One's Behaved Like A Rather Second-rate Person, The Way I Did At Breakfast, Then In A Kind Of Self-destructive Shock One Goes And Does Something Really Second-rate. Almost As If To Prove It.

In A Sense Much Great Literature Is Subversive, Since Its Very Existence Implies That What Matters Is Art, Imagination, And Truth. In What We Call The Real World, On The Other Hand, What Usually Counts Is Money, Power, And Public Success.

Even When We Say Nothing Our Clothes Are Talking Noisily To Everyone Who Sees Us, Telling Them Who We Are, Where We Come From, What We Like To Do In Bed And A Dozen Other Intimate Things.

The Great Subversive Works Of Children's Literature Suggest That There Are Other Views Of Human Life Besides Those Of The Shopping Mall And The Corporation. They Mock Current Assumptions And Express The Imaginative, Unconventional, Noncommercial View Of The World In Its Simplest And Purest Form. They Appeal To The Imaginative, Questioning, Rebellious Child Within All Of Us, Renew Our Instinctive Energy, And Act As A Force For Change. This Is Why Such Literature Is Worthy Of Our Attention And Will Endure Long After More Conventional Tales Have Been Forgotten.