Re: The Worth of Elbert Hubbard?

On Sep 25, 2:58 pm, FreeRadical...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

I know Elbert Hubbard isn't liked by everybody, but I understand that
his books still hold some small value.

SMALL value? I don't know about Hubbard's "books,"
because all I have read by him is his "Message to
Garcia". In my view, that one brief piece at --

http://www.birdsnest.com/garcia.htm

-- would be far more beneficial to most people (if they
really took it to heart, of course) than any 50 self-
help books on sale today. It has value, then, because
they can read it free on the net and save the price of
the 50 self-help books! Naturally, if we looked
hard enough at "Message" we could probably find
a couple of dozen things in it to whine about
because they might not be politically correct by
today's standards. People don't the challenge
inherent in that piece. They would rather
be mollycoddled by a "self-esteem-booster"
article. Sad.

"Message to Garcia". Read it and grow,
Mr. Hope. (Alan could really benefit from that
article: he is shiftless, unfocused, lazy, and a
habitual grumbler as well.) He never would have
gotten the message to Gracia, because he would
have been stopping along the way to pester others
and would likely have forgotten where he was
going. He would have wanted to be paid before
he delivered the message, and whatever he was
paid, he would grouse that it was not enough.
In fact, Alan would probably have soused
himself with strong drink and rolled into a filthy
ditch,and later have gotten up and begun ranting that
Garcia was a "tool of U. S. imperialism" and would have
villified Garcia instead of trying to get the message
to him! Alan probably would have torn up the
message in a crazy fit of pique and then showed
up at Garcia's camp dressed to nines like Waldo
Lydecker in the1940's movie Laura and started
making snide comments to Garcia. Then Alan
probably would be interrupting himself and asking
"Where was I?" as if he were all mixed up. One
thing is certain, that message never would have
gotten delivered if Alan Hope had anything to do
with it..

[Memo from the upstairs office]

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