I Must Write The Book Out In

Robinson Crusoe, The First Capitalist Hero, Is A Self-made Man Who Accepts Objective Reality And Then Fashions It To His Needs Through The Work Ethic, Common Sense, Resilience, Technology, And, If Need Be, Racism And Imperialism.

Anything Would Be Better In The Us Than What You Have. As A Government It's Really Very Low Quality, Given The Fact That This Country Produces Eminent Intellectuals, Has Great Universities, And Then The People Who Arrive In Government Are Very Mediocre. The Latin American Situation Has Been Very Different In The First Place, Because Writers Have Spoken For Those Who Have No Voice. The Rate Of Illiteracy, Poverty, Joblessness In Latin America Has Been So Great Throughout Our History That If The Writers Didn't Speak Out For The People, Nobody Would.

The United States Has Written The White History Of The United States. It Now Needs To Write The Black, Latino, Indian, Asian And Caribbean History Of The United States.

Some Writers Achieve Great Popularity And Then Disappear Forever. The Bestseller Lists Of The Past Fifty Years Are, With A Few Lively Exceptions, A Sombre Graveyard Of Dead Books.

At 50 I Find There Is A Long Line Of Characters And Shapes Demanding Words Just Outside My Window.