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January 13, 2008

The Pricks of Conscience

by Linda Grant, Prospect Magazine, UK - Unluckily for those of us who write fiction or poetry or plays for a living, the reading public's demand that every scribbler become a "writer of conscience" has sunk its teeth into our butts.

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This is tantalizing! I doubt I will actually subscribe just to find out the rest because I am busy making up the rest myself.

I am so moved that an Israeli writer and a Palestinian writer just "get on well" and have collaborated!

They met at a writers' conference. And they get on well. Here are artists doing what all people can do: meeting as people, just people. And then working together. There is hope in the world. We can relate as just people. Other people do not ever have to be my enemies. They might turn out to be my colleagues.

One more time the artists are showing the way.

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