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        Date: 2025-11-19 10:14:54+00:00
        From: Dr. Hartmut Krech <hkrech@gmx.de>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 39.224: a resemblance?

Willard's Humanist has always been an inspiration and (may I say?) good
friend to me in a social environment faithfully described in Willard's
quotation of Dilillo's  remark.
Hartmut (Krech)

Am 19.11.2025 um 07:17 schrieb Humanist:
>                Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 39, No. 224.
>          Department of Digital Humanities, University of Cologne
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>          Date: 2025-11-19 06:12:56+00:00
>          From: Willard McCarty<willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
>          Subject: Humanist
>
> Musing about Humanist, a resemblance struck me. Let me explain.
>
> Don Dilillo, in The Names, has this to say about one of his characters:
>
> “Most of his anger came from TV. All that violence, crime, political
> cowardice, government deception, all that appeasement, that official
> faintheartedness. It rankled, it curled him into a furious ball, a fetus
> of pure rage. The six o’clock news, the seven o’clock news, the eleven
> o’clock news. He sat there collecting it, doubled up with his tapioca
> pudding. The TV set was a rage-making machine, working at him all the
> time, giving him direction and scope, enlarging him in a sense, filling
> him with a world rage, a great stalking soreness and rancor.”
>
> I thought of the radio, of the news I get from it, sometimes more than
> once per day. As the infoglut (remember that word?) threatens to engulf
> us, with effects like those on Delillo's poor character, Humanist is
> like the radio news (at least like Radio 4 here in the UK), thankfully
> filtered, much not said, and nothing shown in bright, sharp colour.
>
> Comments?
>
> Yours,
> WM
>
> --
> Willard McCarty,
> Professor emeritus, King's College London;
> Editor, Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts,
>     Sciences and Humanities (Berghahn); Humanist
> www.mccarty.org.uk



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