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I had a horrible night. Tossed and turned, couldn't stay asleep to save my life. Finally gave up around 6:30 and got up and fed the cats. They're happy about that, of course, but I'm sure not. Crabbiness abounds.
Author Susan Sontag, widely regarded as one of America's leading intellectuals, has died aged 71.
Excerpt:
Calling herself an "obsessed moralist", Sontag was the author of 17 books and a lifelong human rights activist.
Her greatest literary impact was as an essayist, however, with her 1964 study of homosexual aesthetics Notes on Camp establishing her as a major new writer.
Sontag, who described herself as a "zealot of seriousness", was also a human rights activist and an outspoken opponent of US foreign policy.
She prompted controversy when she wrote that the September 2001 attacks on the US were not a "cowardly attack" on civilisation, but "an act undertaken as a consequence of specific American alliances and actions".
She also criticised US President George W Bush over the US-led war in Iraq.
When Ms. Sontag made her comments after 9/11 I applauded her wisdom and courage to speak out. Blessed be Susan. You will be missed.
Excerpt:
Calling herself an "obsessed moralist", Sontag was the author of 17 books and a lifelong human rights activist.
Her greatest literary impact was as an essayist, however, with her 1964 study of homosexual aesthetics Notes on Camp establishing her as a major new writer.
Sontag, who described herself as a "zealot of seriousness", was also a human rights activist and an outspoken opponent of US foreign policy.
She prompted controversy when she wrote that the September 2001 attacks on the US were not a "cowardly attack" on civilisation, but "an act undertaken as a consequence of specific American alliances and actions".
She also criticised US President George W Bush over the US-led war in Iraq.
When Ms. Sontag made her comments after 9/11 I applauded her wisdom and courage to speak out. Blessed be Susan. You will be missed.
***After .375 mg of xanax I managed to get some sleep. I think I'm fighting off a cold, but I'm not sure. I'm also pretty sure that drinking some coffee too last yesterday factored in with the sleeplessness thing too.
***Other than that, I got nothin' today--I slept through most of it. And I'm ready to go back to bed!
***Other than that, I got nothin' today--I slept through most of it. And I'm ready to go back to bed!
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