Herero skulls returned to Namibia?

[Mark Kohut]

This remark was made by one of the poor, indigenous--black, I believe---young men in Updike's novel Brazil. Updike
was trying to capture part of a mindset of part of that country---annotatively, part of the mindset of the
colonized. Their perception of that.
 
It is not very likely that it is a sentiment John Updike himself believed as stated. Such a theme, even, was rare
as were his novels not set in America. And, he was pretty notoriously a 'conservative' in what political beliefs
he expressed---which weren't that many. But, compared to many writers, he wrote about an America he
basically accepted.
 
 
 

From: Lawrence Bryan <lebryan at speakeasy.net>
To: János Széky <miksaapja at gmail.com>
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 6:30 AM
Subject: Re: Herero skulls returned to Namibia?



Buried in the article is: 


"This gave rise to the thought of John Updike who once said: “The world itself is stolen wealth… all property is theft and those who have stolen most of it, make the laws for the rest of us”.his gave rise to the thought of John  


Anyone know where this is from?

Lawrence

On Jul 18, 2011, at 11:49 PM, János Széky wrote:

While browsing, look what I found:
>http://usslave.blogspot.com/2011/04/namibian-skulls-to-be-returned-from.html
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