GRGR Re: Achebe on Conrad

[David Morris]

Quick Response (not to the meat):

"Homos & Women" were meant as a label, inviting stereotype.  Btw, 
"stereotype" can also mean "archtype."

Who is the third of your trifecta after Women & Homo's?  I'd like to snip 
you trifecta to: "The Mental[ly], Moral[ly] and Female[ly] Inferior."

The examples of "Homos" is everywhere in GR: Bitchy Clyde in the men's club 
near the end,  the 175's, possibly all of Mjr. Marvy's (Butch) "Rocket 
fuckers,"  all the so-disposed partiers aboard the Annubis and the Casino 
H.G. and all those other debauched parties... anyone else, crowd?

A good question might be, "Are there "heroic" homo's in GR?  This would get 
us past the question of P's homophobia.

"Women" are easier, but only if it is changed to "Woman."  "V"-ness is 
everywhere in P's writing, and she is undeniably mythic.  This status does 
not really become a "real" character.  The character occupies the role, 
hence "stereotype."  This stereo/archetype is beyond good and evil, but I'd 
all her a good evil.

"Metal" Defectives have Slothrop as their Champion!  His imitators abound.

David Morris

>From: "jbor"
>
>Btw, which "homos and women" in GR's cast are "stereotypes"? I was 
>wondering when we'd get to the third part of *that* trifecta ... i.e. "The 
>Mental, Moral and Physical Inferiority of the Female Sex"
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