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...been categorized by one neo-Wildean observer as "the implacable in search of the unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible.") In the latest issue of the association's magazine, H.S.A. Committee Member Ralph Cook described Britain's 3,380,000 recreational fishermen as villains who lure "unsuspecting sentient creatures onto sharp-barbed hooks." The magazine called on the H.S.A.'s 3,500 members to frustrate anglers by peppering the water with pebbles, posting fake health notices at fishing spots and scaring potential catches away with underwater ultrasonic devices. For a lone fisherman, Cook suggested, "a nudge...
Staeglich's book maintains that the Nazi murder of six million European Jews is nothing more than "Zionist atrocity propaganda." Because this thesis is so obscene, so repugnant to any sentient 20th century human. Staeglich and his book--and the recent reaction to both in West Germany--raise the kinds of question about intellectual freedom one hopes never to encounter outside an ethics class...
...Plante, a young American writer living in London. Plante, who later became an accomplished novelist (The Family, The Woods), set out to help Rhys write an autobiography. He candidly recalls, "I wondered if my deepest interest in her was as a writer I could take advantage of." But the sentient novelist who had written the melancholy Good Morning, Midnight in 1939 was long gone. She spent most of their time together drinking gin and sweet vermouth and babbling away in a pitiful parody of her once considerable style and charm. Plante spares us few of the clinical symptoms...
...around for weeks at a time; eventually, he says, they forgot that they were being watched. "Sure, they might be put off for a day or two," he says, "but very soon they would stop thinking about us and get on with their lives. Our crews became like wallpaper, sentient wallpaper...
Forty years and vast oceans of experience later, the Dalai Lama feels that his mission as a spiritual leader extends beyond Tibet. "As long as there are sentient beings to be liberated from suffering and unhappiness, I will work for the sake of all of them," he said last Thursday. Combining inner meditation with outward service, he embodies the central tenets of Tibet. The practice of kindness, compassion, and love for one's enemies, he says, brings a clear realization of the true nature of reality. "Compassion is something very forceful," he said, adding that it is a potent remedy...