Susan Sontag Dead

[El Mudo]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/books/12/28/obit.sontag.ap/

Well, I always thought her works were self indulgent pieces of shit, but RIP anway I guess..

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[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

that's a picture of susan sarandon, you dolt!


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A handsome woman.


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I'd hit it!

Oh, wrong thread.

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[AppleBoy]

I'd still hit Susan Sarandon. Who cares if she can bounce her boobs off her knees?

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[newport king]

and she has golf ball eyes.

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what was this lady in? the name does not sound familiar at all?


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[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

You're all idiots!

Susan Sontag, author, essayist, activist and intimidating public intellectual, died yesterday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. She was 71 and had suffered from leukemia.
Sontag had a long reign as the most intelligent woman in America, starting as a young critic writing for The Nation, Partisan Review, Harper's and The New York Review of Books.

A strong-featured beauty with a trademark streak of white shot through her unruly black hair, Sontag became an intellectual celebrity in 1964 after publishing the essay "Notes on Camp," in which she argued that style trumps substance and introduced the concept of "so bad, it's good."

After surviving a near-fatal bout of breast cancer in the early '70s, she became even better known with "On Photography" and "Illness as Metaphor."

In the first, Sontag examined how photographs have changed the way we see the world and ourselves. In the second, she explored the cultural myths we attach to certain illnesses.

In a 1992 interview, she revealed her ardor amid 15,000 books in her Chelsea apartment. "I'm an addicted reader," she said as she laughed, "a hedonist. I'm led by my passions. It's a kind of greed in a way."

Born Susan Rosenblatt in New York in 1933, she was the daughter of an alcoholic mother and a father who died when she was 5 as he traded furs in China. Raised in Arizona and Los Angeles, Sontag left home at 15 after graduating from high school.

At 17, she married social psychologist Philip Rieff. They had a son, David, in 1952, but later divorced. Famed photographer Annie Leibovitz had been her longtime companion.

The author of 17 books, Sontag won the National Book Award in 2000 for a historical novel, "In America," though she was criticized for the use of others' research.

An unrelenting campaigner for human rights, Sontag served as president of the American chapter of PEN, the international writers organization dedicated to freedom of expression, from 1987 to 1989.

After 9/11, she took the lead among intellectuals arguing that U.S. foreign policy led to the attacks.

"Whatever may be said of the perpetrators of Tuesday's slaughter, they were not cowards," she wrote in the New Yorker. Once again she was at the center of a storm - hallowed ground for Sontag.


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This message was edited by Alice S. Fuzzybutt on 12-30-04 @ 8:56 AM

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

And, no, I do NOT agree with her politics of 9/11.

You're all just a bunch of dolts for not knowing who she is beyond an I'd HIt IT thread.

Idiots.

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[A.J.]

Famed photographer Annie Leibovitz had been her longtime companion.

OK, THAT I didn't know.

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word. let's go burn some bra's.

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I knew who she was.

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I really like some of Sontag's essays. Illness as Metaphor, and then later AIDS as Metaphor and something she wrote something on filmmaking that I read in a film as lit class in college and thought was rather trenchant too.

As far as her novels, to me at least, they were unreadable, just because she was so selfconsciously an INTELLECTUAL writing a novel. Sad too, because she had a nice naturalistic touch when she permitted it to shine through.

She seemed to adopt the same shock politics as Gore Vidal, going back as far as the Bosnian situation, which is all hard to take seriously and reeks of needing to be relevant by separating themselves from the chattering masses. The one 9/11 comment about them not being cowards was defensible intellectually, as I recall her definition of cowardice and bravery being value neutral; hence flying into a building for your beliefs, in that sense, was not cowardly. If anything, that was the least offensive part of that New Yorker article, to my recollection.

As far as the smartest woman in America, I beg to differ. At scores a few short weeks ago, I met a young woman, who in the excruciating conversational period before a table dance confided to me that she was 5 foot 7, or " Five Twelve in these heels" and that she was earning her degree part time from Princeton Universty's "night school"

Oh and leading this thread with the susan sarandon pic is the funniest fucking thing that Ive seen all day.

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Susan Sontag - author, activist, intellectual, carpet muncher. Dead at the age of 71.

and she has golf ball eyes.
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[El Mudo]

that's a picture of susan sarandon, you dolt!



I put that there because its from "Bull Durham" and in "Bull Durham" Crash refers to the works of Susan Sontag as "self indulgent overrated pieces of shit"...

Sorry, i guess it was a reference no one got...

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Sorry, i guess it was a reference no one got...



I guess we're just lacking in our Bull Durham references.

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[curtoid]

Very funny thread - I snorted as it quickly went downhill.

I think she actually fought off cancer for a long, long time. Winning a battle with Breast cancer, only to lose the war with Leukemia. I think for 10 + years, in fact.

She was at least consistent in her out-spoken-ness - she was against war, pro-human rights and saw no grey lines or compromises between the two. She was against Bush and his post 9/11 response, and was against Clinton and Bosnia. She was also against the Ayatollah when the bounty went on Salman Rushdie's head.

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Susan Sontag - author, activist, intellectual, carpet muncher. Dead at the age of 71.


That would fit very nicely on her headstone.





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