becket03
2008-03-13 20:06:58

Beautifully written piece. Like some others, I found myself growing a bit skeptical as I read it. The style was a little too accomplished, the lefty talking points a little too well articulated, especially since they were so deftly understated. I smelled an assistant prof at Bard.

But I suppose the piece might be for real, especially since the redoubtable Roger Simon vouchsafes it. And then how much sadder, really, is that? So fine a mind who at some point in her life, maybe even still, lacked the discernment to recognize the actual and universal final products of the world’s oldest profession — pain, loneliness, misery and debasement.