a euphemism for P's poorest prose: warm excrement flowing from a pathetic puppet's mouth

[Lemuel Underwing]

Which section was that?

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:49 AM, alice wellintown <
alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:

> Re-reading this section I am struck by the lazy prose P slides into
> here as the ladies depart and with them the need for euphemism, which
> is quickly replaced by the needless use og blasphemism when Sarsdale
> launches into his sermon, a stilted screed, a crappy ranting parody
> that might have been written by Howard Zinn for his cartoon version of
> American History we see an evil plutocrat blow out verbal balloons, no
> onomatopoeia or x#ck UZE, but we sense that P is too lazy to write a
> decent parody, say,  of Letters from an American Farmer by J. Hector
> St. John Crevecoeur or of Emerson, or, were he giving it the old
> college try, Whitman, so we get this absurd little speech that no
> character, not even Scarsdale, not even Brock Vond, would ever make;
> it's all double think Orwellian political puppet teetering.
>
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