NP but Rushdie on Vonnegut

[Mark Kohut]

Another reason why that debate between two philosophers on the reading of
Elizabeth Costello was won, in my estimation, but the full, subtle
presentation
of Elizabeth as an 'unreliable narrator'.

I was there and got to write up this terrif event....in which the one guy
basically got
the other--- a name philosopher to drop his mic.......

On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 8:10 AM Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
wrote:

> > And tell me how *Elizabeth Costello* tackles this?.....
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>  From an edited version of chapter six of "Elizabeth Costello":
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> "That is what Paul West, novelist, had written about, page after page
> after
> page, leaving nothing out; and that is what she read, sick with the
> spectacle, sick with herself, sick with a world in which such things took
> place, until at last she pushed the book away and sat with her head in her
> hands. Obscene! She wanted to cry but did not cry because she did not know
> at whom the word should be flung: at herself, at West, at the committee of
> angels that watches impassively over all that passes. Obscene because such
> things ought not to take place, and then obscene again because having
> taken
> place they ought not to be brought into the light but covered up and
> hidden
> for ever in the bowels of the earth, like what goes on in the
> slaughterhouses of the world."
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> https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/herproblemwithevil
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