Quoth the Irish Times: “Tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from our the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity, and unyielding hope.”
She's not into crime (that I know of), but children's author Meg Rosoff has some fairly worthy thoughts on life and all that, on her website this morning.
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Go on and read the bit on ambition, too.
We are still feeling pretty giddy this am in Ohio. The realization that "democracy, liberty, opportunity, and unyielding hope" were not stabbed to death by the Bush administration is a heady one.
ReplyDeleteYes, first the Phillies now this.
ReplyDeleteAnd Bookwitch that piece on ambition is very good. When does ambition become greed? Who gets to decide what "better place" the world is made into? How does one persons success impact on another's failure?
More questions than answers, certainly, but that's the point. And it sure does fit into crime fiction, in many ways it's the big theme we wrestle everyday. Just look at The Big O and the role of ambition.