From: Reg
Category: Books
Date: 09 November 2004
As a young child I had some idea that the Beatles were clean and drug free, like many children I was anti drugs and cigarettes and self-righteously so. It doesn’t last for very long. Che is every where – badges, t shirts and so on, like poppies on TV. I would like to believe that he fought for a cause that was integral to his character this is not what Jon Lee Anderson wants me to believe. Like any druggy or religious fanatic the suggestion is made that Marxism is just a belief system that suits Guevara’s needs. The first fuck was with a servant girl, as was common amongst his social class and ethnic group. There are depressing excerpts from his diary about his first wife who he marries to do the honourable thing when she gets pregnant. He is stuck with the expectations of his society. His measures as leader are brutal when it comes to discipline, and slowly my naivety is drowned. A fuck is a fuck and that is that. I have only read 300 of the 800 pages in this book.
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