An incredible new song/video

[Mark Thibodeau]

I'd forgotten whether it was Sammler or Herzog!

But of course, it's from Sammler's Planet.

I can only imagine the disappointment of being black and hearing that
Bellow is some tremendous genius and deciding to read him, then coming
across THAT PASSAGE (which is meant to be taken deadly serious, I suspect)
and thinking, "What the HELL?!"

J.

On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 2:13 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is why The Sellout needs its own wiki. (I wanted to send a copy to
> Tim Ware and suggest he do one, but I'm confident
> he would be too busy for another.)
>
> Now I do.
> (Here i thought it might be a hidden Zulus dig but now I see subway and
> penis whereas I just thought it was the
> GENERAL black penis joke stereotype, not Sammler's own. Nice catch.)
>
> As the one twenty-something  white woman asked another 20 something white
> woman in the NY office (fearlessly,--or harmlessly, that is knowing I'm
> harmless and stereotypical surely-- right in front of me), when she learned
> she had had an african-American boyfriend, "Is it true what they say?".
> A: "No"
>
> On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 2:36 AM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Childish Gambino's This is America.
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOjWnS4cMY
>>
>> This is something else. I've just begun reading The Sellout, too, so
>> there's resonance.
>>
>> J.
>>
>> PS - Any Sellout fans notice the Saul Bellow dig on the very first page?!
>> Or IS it a Saul Bellow dig? Does anyone reading this know what I'm
>> referring to?
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