[Oe List ...] Very close to the indicative is the imperative

[Susan Fertig]

Hmmm, maybe I didn’t quite understand what Brooks was saying. I can often be persuaded to understand another’s point of view (see the world as he does) without adopting it; and while I’d like to think that if I understand the other point of view I would then consider it in subsequent decisions, I can’t say that is always the case. But I like Jim’s observation that once you engage your reality changes. 

 

Susan

 

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He kind of makes the case for poets and activists living in separate worlds, and for the human agony that you can't do much as an observer, and once you engage in doing something,  what you see is way different . . .

Jim Wiegel

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On Nov 26, 2010, at 7:36, "Herman Greene" <hgreene at greenelawnc.com> wrote:

This quote from David Brook’s Op-Ed today:

 

“In middle age, it was as a novelist that Tolstoy achieved his most lasting influence. After all, description is prescription. If you can get people to see the world as you do, you have unwittingly framed every subsequent choice.”

 

 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/26/opinion/26brooks.html?_r=1 <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/26/opinion/26brooks.html?_r=1&hp> &hp 

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