Writers
But I want to show that you, Gus, have so far acted as someone who is as-though alone behind a writing apparatus like a typewriter, not at the apparatus of government.
June 5, 2001
- for Abdurrahman WahidGus Dur, I know now what is the strength and weakness of writers. Basically, writers are people alone. Yet they fully believe that words, once born of themselves, will have an effect. Within certain limits, they can be called heroic figures: they are sure of the power of the verbal world in and of themselves, and they are also prepared to bear the cost themselves that arise from this. They are not dependent on others. Seen
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