I wish I had kicked Susan Sontag

UK Telegraph ^ | 1-5-05 | Kevin Myers

[Imgr8t]

"a brilliant intellect can often be the companion to a truly asinine personality"

I'm keeping this one for myself.

[headsonpikes]

Pissing on Sontag's grave would be an excellent piece of performance art!

[Gorzaloon]

Pissing on Sontag's grave would be an excellent piece of performance art!

NEA GRANT!!!! NEA GRANT!!!!

[Colosis]

Kevin is one of a few great Irish Irish journalists we have here. Regular contributor to the telegraph and the Irish times (leftist newspaper that also prints a weekly column written by Mark Steyn!) Some of his pieces, especially on the marxist IRA are extremely hard hitting. Always cheering to read.

[OhMike]

Since death is eternal. it's not too late to micturate.

[sauropod]

That was my observation. Christopher Hitchens can do it also.

[Carolinamom]

I enjoy good writing.

I do too, and this one qualifies in spades. I particularly liked the syntax and content of this one: "...a brilliant intellect can often be the companion to a truly asinine personality."

[trisham]

It was a grotesque performance.

A good epitaph for Susan, I think.

[Stoat]

Who is this Mr. Myers? I confess I've never read his work before, but I certainly hope to fix that.

One source of additional material from Mr. Myers is the Telegraph itself.  I used the Telegraph's own search engine with "Kevin Myers" as the keywords, and these are my results (the first ten out of 301):

I wish I had kicked Susan Sontag
Author By Kevin Myers
DATE: 2005 Jan 02
 

The price of peace? £22m in cash
Author By Kevin Myers
DATE: 2004 Dec 26
 

Do we want the Turkish peasantry here?
Author By Kevin Myers
DATE: 2004 Dec 19
 

The Daily Telegraph letters
Author
DATE: 2004 Dec 12
 

Tracey Emin, you've been rumbled
Author By Kevin Myers
DATE: 2004 Dec 05
 

The Daily Telegraph letters
Author
DATE: 2004 Dec 05
 

The African anarch v the anoraks of cricket
Author By Kevin Myers
DATE: 2004 Nov 28
 

A marine's gotta do what a marine's gotta do
Author By Kevin Myers
DATE: 2004 Nov 21
 

Wear it with pride - but for one week only
Author By Kevin Myers
DATE: 2004 Nov 14
 

The Sunday Telegraph Letters
Author
DATE: 2004 Nov 07

 

[Pharmboy]

In five years, no one under the age of 30 will have heard of her and likely never will. That's my obit for the self-obsessed crackpot.

[em2vn]

The only bad thing about it is that doing so might kill some decent flowers.

[MainFrame65]

I just sent this to the entire Memphis Mensa newsgroup, with the following message:

"Perhaps my birthplace betrays me, but the sheer Britishness of what follows appeals to me in a manner independent of the subject. But the subject, whether officially Mensan or not, was "intellectual" for a living, and this criticism might be salutary for all of us - whether it applies specifically to any of us or not."

[massgopguy]

Among her accomplishments listed in her Obit is that she had sex with Annie Leibowitz. Wow. A life well led eh Sue? Didn't EVERYONE in the 60's counter culture have sex with her too?

[Pharmboy]

LOL...I must have called in sick that day!

[joylyn]

Actually, I admire the epigrams of Oscar Wilde. There was truth in his wit. But Susan Sontag was a pretentious fool.

[Polyxene]

Bon mots -- great name! That is exactly what you have written -- bon mots! Double-dog-dittos to what you said!

[Polyxene]

Susan Sontag was a NAG hag of the first degree!

[TexanToTheCore]

Kevin Myers is a real find. My Lord this man can write.