RIP: V.S. Naipul

[Ian Livingston]

sounds like bot talk

On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 9:32 AM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Wow. Some people. Sheesh.
>
> Jerky
>
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 4:03 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This first below is moving. See Rushdie inside it as well.
> > https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/12/opinion/vs-naipaul-my-
> wonderful-cruel-friend.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytopinion
> >
> > I remember this review. Started the novel. Never finished it because life
> > and distraction
> > https://twitter.com/michikokakutani/status/1028426265957683201
> >
> > https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/11/vs-naipaul-
> nobel-prize-winning-british-author-dies-aged-85
> >
> > Can one believe that his earliest fiction drew comparisons with Chekhov!
> > For his compassionate understanding of regular folk.
> >
> > A simple Naipul profundity worth a lifetime of reflection:
> > https://twitter.com/holdengraber/status/1028607627151003648
> >
> > And a not untypical (albeit over the top), very angry female writer about
> > him:
> >
> >    1.
> >    2. More
> >
> >    Breaking my Twitter fast to observe that VS Naipul was a vile, racist,
> >    misogynist, bag of festering putrescence, who inflated himself by
> torturing
> >    women and dehumanizing Black people. The world smells cleaner today,
> on the
> >    heels of his long~overdue departure. #*Naipul*
> >    <https://twitter.com/hashtag/Naipul?src=hash>
> >    11 replies85 retweets181 likes
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> >    *Shailja Patel*‏Verified account @shailjapatel
> >    <https://twitter.com/shailjapatel> 4h4 hours ago
> >    <https://twitter.com/shailjapatel/status/1028651904761556992>
> >    More
> >
> >    Stop calling men writers brilliant, important, or even useful, when
> >    they're incapable of seeing most of humanity as human. And incapable
> of
> >    writing without brutalizing those they categorize as sub~human.
> #*Naipul*
> >    <https://twitter.com/hashtag/Naipul?src=hash>
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> > On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 3:49 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> The fierceness of his own self-creation made him see this all over the
> >> place, I suggest.
> >>  That's the meaning of Mimic Men, broadly,
> >> whole countries of men who had no character or purpose of their own, I
> >> extrapolate.
> >>
> >> Pitiless about it, he was. Nietzschean.
> >>
> >> Walcott wasn't alone.
> >>
> >> On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 3:41 PM Thomas Eckhardt <
> >> thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I am not familiar with Naipaul's work but know that Derek Walcott never
> >>> forgave him for this (about the West Indies):
> >>>
> >>> "There are no people there in the true sense of the word, with a
> >>> character and a purpose of their own."
> >>>
> >>> "The Middle Passage", 29.
> >>>
> >>> RIP
> >>>
> >>
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