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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