"A novel worth reading is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility, of what human nature is, of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness."

--Susan Sontag, 1933-2004

The media is bristling with obituaries for this most provocative and controversial of thinkers. Two of the better ones may be found at the L.A. Times.

Washington Times Obit for Susan Sontag. This is one of the better ones..

Novelist, radical Susan Sontag, 71, dies in New York

From combined dispatches

Susan Sontag, a critic, novelist and essayist who blamed America for the September 11 terror attacks and once declared that "the white race is the cancer of human history," died in New York yesterday at age 71.

And here's a fine obit for Susan Sontag as well:

http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/003415.php

Passionate, intelligent woman who was a true patriot. She wanted America to be the best it could be, that is why she criticized the hell out of it; she wanted it to move toward heaven. Some may not know it now, but she will be considered a treasure eventually when we catch up to her vision.

The Islamofascists caught up to her vision. Then she left. Allah Akbar!