Monday, July 27, 2009

Power

Approaching the end of Godwin's Caleb Williams. Basically Godwin is a poor writer, of novels anyway. Yet this is a compelling read. A rare example of a writer having something to say that transcends his capacity for saying it. What he says concerns power, and it's as relevant today as it was in that dawn when it was bliss to be alive.

Is it ever irrelevant not to be intimately concerned with our power over others, and theirs over us, and what it does to all and sundry?

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