Wednesday, May 31, 2006

It Can't Happen Here

Yes, I should be starting to pack for Spain, or I should be reading my library book 'Python Programming for Win32', or I should be doing several other things.

Yet, this morning, I curled up on the living room couch, and finished reading "It Can't Happen Here", Sinclair Lewis' 1935 novel of Fascism in America.

The parallels with today are many. Here's a summary.

Lewis' tale commences with the 1936 election - at the time of writing, a future event. Today, the book reads like the Alternate Histories of Harry Turtledove and others.

Very chilling.

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