I don't normally read letters to the editor, but a friend pointed me to this gem from the Globe from reader Nick Sopinka referring to the new Adrienne Clarkson memoirs:
Kimberley, Ont. -- Margaret Wente is typically enlightening and entertaining. According to our former G-G in her memoirs, Heart Matters, "I had always envisaged that John and I would live like Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir." This is a startling admission for a former head of state. First, Simone was one of Sartre's mistresses and procured women for him. Secondly, Jean-Paul was an avowed communist, enamoured of an ideology that claimed millions of victims. Some intellectuals. Some role models.
The Globe and Mail may not make for lively reading, (except for the occasional Wente column, such as this one, and Rex Murphy) but some of its readers seem to know how to write.
