I just found out ( by finding it in a store -- say what you like about San Francisco(and I'll probably agree with you, sadly), but it has some great bookstores ) that William Vollmann's 3,500 page magnum opus on violence, Rising Up and Rising Down, has been published in an (affordable) abridgment. This guy was a war correspondent in Syria, Yugoslavia and chunks of Africa, and after witnessing quite a lot of it, decided to sit down for 23 years to write an entire treatise on the subject, including a moral calculus thereof.
Needless to say, I bought a copy. This's very exciting.
Monday, February 23, 2009
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