<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f4cddd57-8d1e-42f2-8397-fc68ba6b34c7/9D3434D0-FC2A-4ADB-8686-6F2A0AD47A60/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.signandsight.com/features/1797.html" href="http://www.signandsight.com/features/1797.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.signandsight.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.signandsight.com/features/1797.html"><DIV>The <A target="_blank" href="http://www.literaturfestival.com/bios1_3_6_478.html">writer</A> <B>Manual Rivas</B> <A target="_blank" href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/portada/hablen/muerte/conozco/elpepusoceps/20081123elpepspor_3/Tes">talks</A> to the <A target="_blank" href="http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1998/">literary Nobel prize laureate</A> and avid <A target="_blank" href="http://cuaderno.josesaramago.org/">blogger</A> <B>Jose Saramago</B>: "You could write in one of the major dailies everyday – so why blog instead? It is about dissidence?", asks Rivas. Saramago: "Perhaps it's the feeling of being able to <B>start over again</B>: writing without limits. The papers would pay, of course. But look, Obama won and I'm happy about it so I sit myself down and write an article in my blog, and I demand outright that he shut Guantanamo and lift the trade embargo against Cuba. And I can do this sort of thing whenever I want. Of course you will be eventually integrated into the system. Basically you are just a morello cherry on a cake. They tolerate you, laugh at you – that Saramago again... But I refuse to give up. I wake up feeling like a <B>libertarian communist </B>every morning. There are three questions which we should never stop asking: Why? What for? For whom?"</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9D3434D0-FC2A-4ADB-8686-6F2A0AD47A60/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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