Chap 10, Misc.

alice wellintown alicewellintown at gmail.com
Sat Nov 13 22:05:09 CST 2010


The key text here is Scarlet Letter. Like Hawthorne, P is little
concerned with the sin (if it is a sin), and that probably, that
romantic probably, maybe, perhaps, that if that Tony Tanner talks
about, so Romantic, be is Jesus or Pearl or that Prairie, is,
depending on who is looking at her, the daughter of a Madonna or a
Adultruss. the Letter A may stand for Art.



On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> so, mumbling, grumbling, darn authors, give us a book where the guy
> faced with a baby not his persuades the woman not to have an abortion
>
>
> wait: Vineland.  Zoyd.  (Prairie's probably not his, is what I'm
> thinking, though it isn't completely explicit)
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> --
> "Such regulations may, no doubt, be considered as in some respects a
> violation of natural liberty. But those exertions of the natural
> liberty of a few individuals, which might endanger the security of the
> whole society, are, and ought to be, restrained by the laws of all
> governments, of the most free as well as of the most despotical." -
> Adam Smith
>



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