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From: ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow)
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Subject: re: could criminals be literate
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Date: Wed, 28-Sep-83 16:00:32 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 28 16:00:32 1983
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D Sullivan writes "What great pieces of literature are we talking about
criminals writing?"

If you don't believe a criminal could be literate you are trivializing a
weighty problem.  Bad guys are not 2-dimensional, as tv would have you
believe.  We Americans often regard "backward" individuals or cultures as
having no past or future--stick figures--the "life's cheap over there"
syndrome.  This is not a flame about guns (I'm ambivalent, as I trust my
government even less than my neighbor).  When you shoot somebody, though,
it is--or was--a real person you have perhaps irreversibly judged.  That
doesn't make it wrong, but it does make it messy.  &BTW, if you never buy
books by crooks, you've missed my favorite thief, Francois Villon.
Where ARE the snows of yesteryear?

ken perlow
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