"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in"
(Leonard Cohen)
"Ignore all proffered rules and create your own, suitable for what you want to say"
(Michael Moorcock)
"Look for your own. Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings."
(Andre Gide)

"I want my place, my own place, my true place in the world, my proper sphere, my thing which Nature intended me to perform when she fashioned me thus awry, and which I have vainly sought all my life-time."
(Nathaniel Hawthorne)
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
(Franz Kafka)
"All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated"
(John Donne)
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
(Robert J. Hanlon)
"Life is beautiful, but the world is hell"
(Harold Pinter)

Monday, October 12, 2009

Defend Free Speech - Defend Dave Osler!



Quite unbelievably, the Marxist blogger Dave Osler (aka 'Dave's Part') is involved in a Libel Case over a comment made on his blog. Obviously, the implications for political blogging - and for free speech in general  in the UK - are quite considerable. And alarming.
Thankfully, Dave is receiving a lot of support - even from the British rightwing-libertarian/Tory end of the blogosphere spectrum, to quote: "Speaking on behalf of the political blogosphere, may I say that while you're clearly a terminally deluded lefty imbecile, you're our terminally deluded lefty imbecile". It almost warms your heart.
http://tinyurl.com/yll9oj9
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