http://www.redpepper.org.uk/thinking-beyond-boundaries/ Red Pepper Wed, 18 Sep 2013 04:24:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 http://www.redpepper.org.uk/thinking-beyond-boundaries/#comment-183847 Ric Sissons Wed, 10 Apr 2013 03:55:38 +0000 http://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=9679#comment-183847 Mike
Really enjoyed reading your article. Interviewing CLR for City Limits magazine many years ago was a pleasure that remains with me. He was a wonderful, generous person.

]]> http://www.redpepper.org.uk/thinking-beyond-boundaries/#comment-177782 Michael Santiago Mon, 01 Apr 2013 16:06:38 +0000 http://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=9679#comment-177782 I thoroughly enjoyed this article. Like you I have read Beyond a Boundary many times, and find something new in it each time. I had the honour of meeting ‘Nello’ several times in the 80s shortly before his passing. His rapier like intelligence and polymath like command of such a wide range of subject areas, was one of my greatest motivations to go on and, at his insistence, “scale the Olympian heights of academic achievement.”
My only contention with your article is that, for West Indians of that era, the aesthetic was never an incidental by-product. By all means beating the former colonial masters at their own aristocratic game was important, but not in a dull workmanlike manner. It had to be done with an innate joy, beauty and panache that they never had. I do agree though that for me, CLR’s greatest legacy has been to live and think beyond all imposed boundaries.

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