Leonard on Moody's _The Black Veil_

Richard Romeo richardromeo at hotmail.com
Mon Jul 8 10:57:32 CDT 2002


doug quoting JL:
>''The Black Veil'' concludes with a positively brilliant howling at white 
> >privilege, an apostrophe to ''blackness'' that reciprocates Melville's 
> >incantation on the lovely whiteness of pearls, brides and sharks. ''To be 
> >an American, to be a citizen of the West, is to be a murderer. Don't kid 
> >yourself. Cover your face.''
>
>
>... Pynchonian reverberations (especially recalling  Pynchon's response to 
> >Hawthorne)
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Leonard's review despite the above affirmation is not very positive. In any 
case, as for Moody, what a pretentious bore. self-righteous is not a pretty 
foundation for any writer.

rich

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