Tracking the ever-elusive Great American Novel

[jbor at bigpond.com]

On 24/05/2006:

> Just because someone wins a Nobel Prize
> doesn't make them some kind of goddess incapable of a few wrong words.
> It has nothing to do with the fact that she's black, or that she's a
> she, and everything to do with a few simple words spoken by a person.

And those words were? We still don't know, because the report we got 
was that Toni Morrison (an African American women) complained that the 
Venus de Milo was a misogynist work while labouring under the mistaken 
belief that it was created without arms. You found it "a funny story" 
as I recall.

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