On The Road With Al and Ivy: A Literary Homeless Chronicle - August 2020
Just as many writers about 1930 had discovered that you cannot really be detached from contemporary events, so many writers about 1939 were discovering that you cannot really sacrifice your intellectual integrity for the sake of a political creed — or at least you cannot do so and remain a writer. - George Orwell (The Frontiers Of Art and Propaganda) "...the Indian lovers, like the Indian haters, were satisfied with their own image of the red man". - Stephen E. Ambrose (Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives Of Two American Warriors) Childhood is described as a time of innocence, but kids often spend it lying, cheating, stealing and inflicting pain on each other; while parents try their best to contain such impulses, at least until adulthood where there's a time and place for everything. It's a time for learning your place in the world. Look at any children's toy section and it's obvious that sexual roles are defined early on, and as our perception of t...