NP Hiter, Mussolini, Hearst

[jporter]

> From: Terrance <Lycidas at worldnet.att.net>

                [snip]

> (and now he's being picked over by the vulture crowd
> fighting over his sexuality for money--makes Pynchon Inc.
> look like a corner deli to McDonalds)
> 
> and died in obscurity, they can print this John Leonard
> essay (I bet John hasn't read Melville since college) but
> they couldn't even spell his name when he went sadly away,
> ahgh, it's too bad, perhaps Wood is right, it's broken.


Not in a position to argue with you re: the critical fate of Melville, or,
John Leonard's reading habits, but:

Sex and race, race and sex- two fundamentals? Do they "commute" as the
mathematicians say? Or, is our order of awareness of them important? Perhaps
it depends on "the times," which, I think we all agree, are a-changin'
Still, it might be worth contemplating- which do you notice first about
someone new when they walk into the room?

jody