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Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader

by Vivian Gornick

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 161 pp., $25.00; $16.00 (paper)

by Vivian Gornick

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by Vivian Gornick

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by Vivian Gornick

Picador, 165 pp., $16.00 (paper)

From birth to death, writes Vivian Gornick, in her memoir The Odd Woman and the City,

we are, every last one of us, divided against ourselves. We both want to grow up and dont want to grow up; we hunger for sexual pleasure, we dread sexual pleasure; we hate our own aggressionsanger, cruelty, the need to humiliateyet they derive from the grievances we are least willing to part with.

From there the divisions multiply. We long for experience, we shrink from experience; we want to understand, we dont want to understand. We confuse our neuroses for our innermost truths and in the end it all boils down to: nothing. Pointless disharmony. Friendships are random, conflicts prevail, work is the sum of its disabilities, she writes in another memoir, Fierce Attachments.

But then there are times when we feel ourselves whole. We stand at the center of our experience and something inside us flares into bright life. Under the influence of a conviction of inner clarity, we become eloquent, prolificwhat Gornick calls our expressive selves. This, we feel, is the meaning of life. This is what it means to be alive.

Gornick has published thirteen books in fifty years, fourteen if you count Woman in Sexist Society, the anthology of feminist writing she coedited with Barbara K. Moran in 1971. Most concern someone whose quest for the expressive self rises to the level of an addiction. In a new introduction to The Romance of American Communism, her 1977 book reissued earlier this year, Gornick observes that there is a certain kind of cultural herothe artist, the scientist, the thinkerwho is often characterized as one who lives for the work. This hero is her subject. Why do people devote their lives to causes that deprive them of love and comfort and ordinary happiness, Gornick asks? As a lifelong writer, a woman of blunt manner and deep feeling for whom the effort is agony, she has a personal investment in the answer.

Gornick has long enjoyed an audience of literary depressives and feminists. Now, a late-career revival is expanding her readership. In 2015 The Odd Woman and the City introduced her to a new generation. In 2020 four more Gornick titles have given occasion for a backward glance: Unfinished Business, a new bibliomemoir about rereading, and reissues of Approaching Eye Level (1996), The End of the Novel of Love (1997), and The Romance of American Communism. The timing of their publication could be chalked up to the return of American socialism, or to the tendency to rediscover women artists in old age. But the lasting value of her work lies in her commitment to the question of what it means to feel expressive: to experience the feeling that tells a person not approximately, but precisely who they are.

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BLM and the Coming Danger Opinion October 8, 2020 , by Content Admin

By stealth and design, America, over the past five decades has allowed itself to be enveloped in the soothing fog of socialism where its corrosive philosophy has been allowed to incubate in our public schools until ultimately, it has let loose the legions of corrosive thinking cretins, BLMs, now attacking and burning our towns and cities, indeed our Americanism disguised as peaceful protesters but, anarchists all. The scary thing is that these people are for most part, Americans.

I am slightly confused. I always thought that BLM identified the Bureau of Land Management, a government quasi law enforcement entity to protect Americas wide open spaces and Indian reservations. I was alarmed when BLM got directly involved against private enterprise when they assumed a Nevada rancher, the Bundy family, were in violation of some land use rules empowering them, the BLM, to seize Bundys cattle without due process. This occurred under a Democrat government when then House Speaker Harry Reid, wanted the land Bundy used for cattle grazing to sell to a renewable energy company to install solar collectors. That constituted an Executive Action requiring a legal punishment, (theft of Bundys cattle), an unconstitutional act, unless they got away with it. They didnt, and that part of the story died. Also quickly ignored was the singular fact that armed American citizens confronted the BLM usurpers and prevailed.

In any event, we are now confronted with a different BLM, hoards of black clad young, mostly white Americans, organized or not, volunteering for political reasons or for pay, to support the BLM group of self styled and admitted Marxists who are determined to bring America down.

As this lot runs around city streets and cafes attempting to humiliate dining patrons, it is more an expression of Maoism than Marxism. In any event, their mission is the same, destroy America. A shocking video interview of a young white male with a plastic face shield truthfully answering the interviewers questions, admitted that capitalism had to be overthrown and replaced by socialism. By his attitude he thought it was an event sure to happen. Where did he get such anti-American ideas? From the revisionists of American history, in the Common Core syllabus indoctrinating its neophytes about how rotten America has been to people of color, to the poor and the undocumented immigrants swarming here for a better life, free of charge of course!

Americas long and successful exercise in representative government, where decorum between contending ideas, (except for the Civil War period), even with those that clearly flouted the US Constitution, were argued out in the public domaine with a basically honest media reporting the results, not trying to make them. All that has been washed away with the corrupting marriage between commerce and government, the source of the vast pot of easy cash endlessly flowing to buy the votes of politicians. Thats one step away from Fascism, Mussolinis idea that one can keep his business so long as his business produces what government tells him to produce.

Nobody could seriously believe that Joe Biden is up 16 points over Donald Trump except CNN who said so. Thats a fear inducing tactic! What is happening is a post Trump Leftist scheme to give us two choices in what government, we will have, Fascism or Communism, aka: Socialism. To Democrats, it really makes no difference because both concepts are Far Left and will only survives under the heel of Totalitarian, protected by a police state.

Mostly, Americans now live comfortably adjusting to deflation and inflation, lower interests rates and affordable fuel and food prices. That comfort could soon end and Conservative Americans must be prepared for two choices, give in or water the roots of the Liberty Tree.

Remember, freedom is the goal, the Constitution is the way. Now, lets get awesome! (06Oct20)

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LETTER: PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosas latest reminder that it is the ANCs intention to reduce the ownership of farmland by whites (The Mercury, Tuesday) is yet another reference to the ANCs adherence to the Freedom Charter.

Compiled by communists in 1955, the Freedom Charter should be renamed the Servitude Charter, because it advocates state control of every aspect of life and enterprise, just as oppressed people in the Soviet Union experienced.

Specifically on the land issue it states: Restrictions on land ownership on a racial basis shall be ended and the land re-divided. All shall have the right to occupy land wherever they choose.

From that, it is obvious that expropriation of land without compensation is pure Servitude Charter dogma.

Ironically, under the heading There shall be houses, security and comfort, the Charter proclaims that food will be plentiful. What, of course, is missing there is the fact that state control of food means that it would be available only in terms of ration cards, as the oppressed people of communist Russia experienced. Communism is a failed evil that pervades every detail of the Servitude Charter.

To date, the restitution of land by the ANC has had only negative outcomes: 90% of the beneficiaries have opted for cash rather than land and where farms have been handed over, most have reverted to nature. Zebediela, the greatest citrus estate in the world, was handed over in Nelson Mandelas time. Within a short while, only 10% of it remained productive.

Food security in South Africa depends on those boere sons of the soil. That is a reality that was proved in Zimbabwe. When white farmers were evicted from their farms because they were white, food production declined by 90%. Famine is a way of life in Zimbabwe.

Food is a weapon, as communists know full well. But in South Africa it is a weapon they dont control yet.

In the face of the on-going killing of farmers, which is all part of repossessing land as the Servitude Charter advocates, white farmers need to weaponise food.

Each time there is a farm attack or murder, the price of foodstuff should be increased.

White farmers have the ability to hit back at the ANCs plan to rob them of their land and to impoverish all in the process.

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BY ISN STAFF | October 1, 2020

In 2004, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) made immigration reform a major public policy priority of the Catholic Church in the United States. In 2005, after engaging broad stakeholders, the USCCB created the Justice for Immigrants (JFI) campaign in an effort to unite and mobilize a growing network of Catholic institutions and individuals in support of humane treatment of immigrants and refugees and immigration reform.

Pope Francis sits with refugee children from Syria at the Vatican. [Image via USCCB/JFI]

We celebrate 15 years of the Justice for Immigrants initiative and the amazing accomplishments of Catholic organizations to welcome, protect, promote, and integrate immigrants and refugees coming to and living in the United States. While we are pleased to highlight the work that has been done by the Church and Justice for Immigrants to advance the humane treatment and legalization for immigrants, we note that the work is far from done. The Church redoubles its commitment to the Justice for Immigrants initiative and to recognizing the human dignity and rights of immigrants and refugees and the promotion of legalization and legislative reform. Our efforts are rooted in the Gospel and the need to recognize the face of Jesus in every person. Because of this, we will continue our work to educate Catholics about the Churchs teaching on promoting the human dignity of every person, including the immigrant and the refugee. We will also continue to encourage lawmakers and community leaders to prioritize reform of our broken system and to avoid politicization of our immigrant and refugee brothers and sisters.

To commemorate the 15 year anniversary, Justice for Immigrants will be conducting a webinar series and has also issued a new policy priorities document (available in English and Spanish) which is organized around what Pope Francis referred to as our response to the challenges posed by contemporary migration: Welcome, Protect, Promote, and Integrate. Visit http://www.justiceforimmigrants.org for more information about the USCCBs Justice for Immigrants campaign.

The Ignatian Solidarity Network is a national core committee member of Justice for Immigrants.

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Central American migrants are seen inside an enclosure in El Paso, Texas, March 27, 2019. They were being held by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border and turning themselves in to request asylum. Under Trump administration policy, the migrants must be returned to Mexico and apply for U.S. asylum from there. (CNS photo/Jose Luis Gonzalez, Reuters)

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WASHINGTON The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is marking the 15th anniversary of the Justice for Immigrants campaign to unite and mobilize Catholic organizations and individuals to welcome, protect, promote and integrate immigrants and refugees coming to and living in the United States.

In that time, the campaign and the Catholic Church as a whole have accomplished much to advance the humane treatment and legalization for immigrants, said Archbishop Jos H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the USCCB, and Auxiliary Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville of Washington, who is chairman of the USCCB Committee on Migration.

But that the work is far from done, the prelates said in a joint statement Sept. 29.

The church redoubles its commitment to the Justice for Immigrants initiative and to recognizing the human dignity and rights of immigrants and refugees and the promotion of legalization and legislative reform, Archbishop Gomez and Bishop Dorsonville said.

Our efforts are rooted in the Gospel and the need to recognize the face of Jesus in every person. Because of this, we will continue our work to educate Catholics about the churchs teaching on promoting the human dignity of every person, including the immigrant and the refugee, they said.

The Catholic bishops, other Catholic leaders and the Justice for Immigrants campaign will also continue to encourage lawmakers and community leaders to prioritize reform of our broken system and to avoid politicization of our immigrant and refugee brothers and sisters, they added.

In 2004, the USCCB made immigration reform a major public policy priority of the U.S. Catholic Church.

A year later after engaging broad stakeholders, the USCCB created the Justice for Immigrants campaign in an effort to unite and mobilize a growing network of Catholic institutions and individuals in support of humane treatment of immigrants and refugees and immigration reform, according to a USCCB release.

The campaigns website, http://www.justiceforimmigrants.org, includes USCCB statements on immigration and related topics, including Dreamers legislation in Congress; Catholic social teaching; anti-trafficking resources; information on COVID-19 and its impact on immigrant communities; and the stories of immigrants themselves. Information on the site is routinely updated, according to the USCCB.

To commemorate its 15th anniversary, Justice for Immigrants is conducting a webinar series; it began Sept. 30 and will continue every Wednesday through Nov. 12.

It also has issued a new policy priorities document, available in English and Spanish, which is organized around what Pope Francis referred to as our response to the challenges posed by contemporary migration: Welcome, protect, promote and integrate.

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