SLSL Racial Differences
vze26x2p
vze26x2p at verizon.net
Wed Nov 13 06:25:13 CST 2002
Now that the "racial differences" sentence has been thoroughly
explicated, what about the sentence that begins the paragraph?
"Modern readers will be, at least, put off by an unacceptable level of
racist, sexist proto-Fascist talk throughout the story." (Low-lands)
When ever are "modern readers" of serious fiction at all likely to judge
what they read as "acceptable" or "unacceptable?" Is the "talk" in
Gravity's Rainbow acceptable?
In other words are we to read this sentence with the same grain of salt
as we read "it's simply wrong to begin with a theme?"
I didn't think Low-lands was that terrible a story, despite the
silliness with which it starts off and the general preposterousness of
the characterization. Better than some others.
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