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Paul Mackin mackin at allware.com
Sat Nov 16 11:17:55 CST 1996


Some of it TOO OF COURSE must be Negro shit, but that all looks alike.
(emphasis addied)

Not sure I get Andrew's meaning  here.

IMHO the sentence could, without loss,  have been written:

Some of it must be Negro shit, but that all looks alike TOO OF COURSE.

The quintessential view of one ethnic group of another.

Am I on the right track, Andrew?

				P.

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17) "Some of it too of course must be Negro shit, but that all looks
    alike" (65.14) Just sneaks in under your stomach and induces a
    gut-boggling belly laugh. Note that it is the 'too of course'
    which is instrumental in making this joke so funny - Slothrop
    acknowledging that of which he knows zero other than that it must
    exist. The racism of presumption.




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