IP: A Japanese Writer Analyzes Terrorists and Their Victims

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff () iconia com>
> To: "Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu>
>
>
> A Japanese Writer Analyzes Terrorists and Their Victims
> By HOWARD W. FRENCH
> The New York Times
>
> TOKYO, Oct. 14 — For Haruki Murakami, Japan's most popular living fiction
> writer, the current struggle against terrorism is no clash of civilizations,
> much less a crusade.
>
> Rather, as the novelist sees it, the war that opposes the United States and
> its allies against reputed terrorist groups like al Qaeda is a collision
> between incompatible networks, or what he calls circuits, whose apprehension
> of reality is every bit as irreconcilable as matter and antimatter. And
> whose collisions are bound to be just as explosive.
>
> "The open circuit is this society," Mr. Murakami said, "and the closed
> circuit is the world of religious fanatics: Islamic fundamentalists or
> groups like Aum Shinrikyo. I think they are all the same in a way. Their
> worlds are perfect, because they are closed off."
>
> --SNIP--
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/15/books/15MURA.html?pagewanted=all
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