Tracking the ever-elusive Great American Novel

[Paul Mackin]

On May 22, 2006, at 10:54 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:

> I haven't found anything along those lines yet msyelf,
> nor do I much exopect to, given that, whatever the
> comment was, it was made on a radio show, so ...
>
> But perhaps she was indeed not tlaking about the
> statue as it was created, but, rather, as it's come
> down to, not to mentione come to be fetishized by, us

What if the statue had come to us unbroken. Wouldn't we
still have recognized its (admittedly Western-style) beauty
and in end repaid that beauty by placing a clock in its belly?

Criticize the damn thing if you will, Toni, for being a WHITE
female, not for being an INCOMPLETE one.

Beloved is still a pretty important American novel.


> ...
>
> --- jbor at bigpond.com wrote:
>
>> Just waiting to hear back from Henry on the friendly
>> wager I suggested ($50 donation to waste) about
>> whether or not Toni Morrison really was "ignorant"
>> of the fact that the Venus de Milo statue originally
>> had arms.

Could only manage to quote a single word. Typical distortion.
>
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