Write or Flight » Great works http://writeorflight.com A blog about writers, writing and filling life with clever words. Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:41:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The Power of Letters to Change the World http://writeorflight.com/2009/01/the-power-of-letters-to-change-the-world/ http://writeorflight.com/2009/01/the-power-of-letters-to-change-the-world/#comments Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:02:48 +0000 Phil http://writeorflight.com/?p=105 Mental Floss had a great article on six open letters that had a huge impact on the world.

MLK’s Letter from a Birminham Jail is a given, but I also have to give much credit to the Letter on Corpulance… mostly because I love the word corpulance.

Now that letter writing is an increasingly dead art, I wonder if anyone will be able to muscle out a response from society with a well-worded and concise treatise outlining a social problem.

More likely, the art will be replaced with the viral video, wherein eloquence isn’t so much the goal, as cheap laughs or sideshow oddities that get you links.

Well, who am I to judge what’s the higher art, right?

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For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.

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