the book you know paul once wrote in a literary relationship essay about his relationships with joseph conrad, he wrote that we read to discover what we already know. his thought is not really done there but i had that as an amped up when he was writing the book. the truth is i found so much of myself in baker. everywhere i looked. every time i turned around, there is some new connection between him and me and i felt indicted by him. i thought included within. so he was the perfect writer for me. which is not to say he would necessarily be the perfect writer for you or anyone else. i say towards the end of the book that the purpose is not to find and to suggest that you read nicholson baker about the writer that will be nicholson baker for you. that is the point of departure. you read to find out what you already know. we read to explore the streams of arab cause. we sail up the headwaters of arab thought to find that lake, my reservoir that makes us who we are. that is not the whole story. you have to go the other way, too. you have to go beyond what you're doing now and explore the author o

and he writes, the great scholar of joseph conrad, by the way that "it has taken almost four years forslo peace process to peel off its cosmetic wrappings to reveal the stark truth hidden at its core: there was no peace agreement. instead, palestinians entered an appalling spiral of loss and humiliation, gulled by the united states and the media into thinking that we had at last achieved some measure of respectability, bludgeoned by israel into accepting its pathological definition of security, all of which has impoverished our people, who are obliged to watch more settlements being built, more land taken, more houses destroyed, more sadistic collective punishments meted out. israel should explain why we should forget the past, remain uncompensated, our travails unacknowledged, even as all other victims of injustice have the right to reparations apologies and the like. there is no logic to that, only the cold, hard, narcissistic indifference of amoral power. amy: that was edward said in 1997. we'll take a break, and talk about what is happening today as well in electoral politics. katr

inverted his name in the cables so, rather than signing ismay he sign him nice yamsi, and actually joseph conrad, who attended some of the hearings about the titanic, referred to him as the luckless yansi, and he also was in hiding on she ship. he wouldn't come out and face anyone. these are two of like signs that the shaming is really powerful and you may or may not be getting the ideal outcome afterwards. >> in lit temporary terms sometimes shame are -- is equated with your social persona dying. it's really intense. so he was removing himself from the things he loved which were society. he was hiding. he said he wasn't going out in public. >> and he was changing his identity. shame latches ton reputation. so we also see phillip morris preferring to be called altrea or bp considering changing its name after the deep water horizon. blackwater changed its name. you can see these similar tendencies, among groups -- government it's much harder to change but it still does happen. >> change the parties. >> you change parties. or change the name of a technique, like torture becomes enhanced interrogat

book you know, it was once written in a literary relationship essay about a relationship with joseph conradte that we read to discover what we already know and his thought's not really done there but i had that as kind of an anthem when i was writing book. and the truth was that i found so much of myself in baker. everywhere i looked. every time i turned around, there was some new connection between him and me. and i felt indicted by him, i felt included with him. and so he was the perfect writer for me. but -- which was not to say that he would necessarily be the perfect writer more you or for anyone else. so i say toward the end of the book that the purpose of this book is not to find, not to suggest that you read nicholson bake we are, but you find the writer that will be nicholson baker for you. and, to of course nepal's not done with that statement. you read to find out what you already know, you know, we read to explore the streams of our own thought, right? we sail up the headwaters of our own thought to find that lake, that reservoir of thinking that makes us who we are. but that's