BE: definitions of innocence (chs. 31, 40)

[Rev'd Seventy-Six]

p. 340:
"...meantime the only help we get from the media is boo hoo the
innocent dead. Boo fuckin hoo. You know what? All the dead are
innocent. There's no uninnocent dead."

p.450:
"Everybody thinks they know more than her. The old sad delusion of
every insect-free know-it-all in this miserable town. Everybody thinks
they live in 'the real world' and she doesn't.... So that's what it
is, to be an 'innocent person'."

No flies on P. Just me, or does the author seem, ah,
uncharacteristically angry in this particular outing?

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