"I hope it doesn't end up being a discussion in that context," said Dan Livingston, chief negotiator for the State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition.
Even so, it was a later discussion in that same Great Lives programme that seemed to provide the real explanation for the book's success.
There's been a lot of discussion in that field about what can we afford to lose and how much can we afford to lose.
"It would be hard to imagine a discussion in that format that would do justice to 'Paradise, Timothy Aubrybry, a professor of English at Baruch College and the author of "Reading As Therapy," told me.
It also led him to write "Earth in the Balance," and all the discussion in that book about addictive behavior and dysfunctional families clearly arises — he as much as says so — out of a personal trauma.
We wanted to shift the discussion in that direction".
But it goes beyond this discussion in that it raises the question of what the object of love and hatred is.
It locates the author's approach in relation to Systemic Functional Linguistics and raises some questions to do with possible avenues of future research and discussion in that model.
