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| | Dalkey Archive Press: An Interview with William H. Gass |
 | | I think these things do impinge upon what I was talking about in that essay, as I remember it, because the self-imposed restrictions of the bookstores indicate a sympathy not for the Ayatollah's extremism but for the anger and affront felt by the Islamic communities here and abroad. |
 | | Here is a statement from your essay "Culture, Self, and Society": "A culture morally and functionally fails which does not let its crazies, its artists and its saints, its scientists and politicians, claim, on occasion, a higher law than its own congresses can pass, traditions permit, or conscience conceive." Should we also add, ". |
 | | Cultures of great richness, in fact, can develop that are based in absolute idiocy. |
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