Reflections of a working writer and reader
The novelist's sensibility may be greater than his intelligence, but even this is limited - the highest sensibility is more likely to appreciate than to create. Some very primitive factors are involved in creation - in particular, cruelty. Drama is more akin to mimicry, the novel to gossip and even scandal-mongering, than either of them are to Science or Philosophy - and the primitive factors in Literature cannot be neglected or despised, they are the forces that make it live. Robert Liddell
Assange, who released the video of a U.S. helicopter attack in Baghdad that left two journalists dead, speaks about the work of his organization and its continuing efforts to expose the secrets of the world’s most powerful governments and institutions:
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