Re: hmm?

[Kate Clunies-Ross <goldbergs@TALK21.COM>]

I vote with your brother, too.  But like Elmer, I  had better be careful
what I say ! ....Strill, I can't imagine Glenn Gould either  as anything but
antiwar in principle. This was a guy who cared about his fellow creatures;
in his  will he left most of his estate to the Humane Society  to save
animals and to the Salvation Army to help homeless people. Surely a man who
cared so much about saving even animals from an untimely death (remember his
totally impractical dream of owning a farm in order  to gather together all
illtreated and unloved farm animals, and let them live out their natural
lives in peace )  - would care as much for his fellow men? And much as he
loved justice, he might not have been convinced that fighting a war  was
automatically the best way of ensuring that justice be done.

He  seems to have been a patriotic man - he said how much  he loved Canada
and recognised it had been good to him - but I think that he would never
have condoned actually  going to war, except, perhaps in the direst of
circumstances, and then I think he might have bowed to the inevitable but
with great reluctance and sadness.

Kate

> Original messages- From: Elmer Elevator <bobmer.javanet@RCN.COM> To:
> F_MINOR@EMAIL.RUTGERS.EDU Subject: Re: hmm? Date: Mar, 26, 2003, 8:20 pm


> can't talk here. I don't want to get spanked again.

> but I vote with your brother.

> elmer

> -----Original Message----- From: ML <ml> To:
> F_MINOR@email.rutgers.edu <F_MINOR@email.rutgers.edu> Date: Monday, March 24,
> 2003 8:40 PM Subject: hmm?


>> i was just having a discussion with my brother, a non-Gouldian, as to whether
>> Glenn would be prowar or antiwar. i insisted that glenn would be prowar, as
>> he had a strong intellect, and a passion for justice.  my brother said he'd
>> be antiwar, as he was a liberal-minded artist.

>> not like it matters now, anyways.  but still...any thoughts?

>> -michael