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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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