No comment although I have them.

[David Morris]

I get that we can meaningfully and simultaneously speak out of more than
one side of our mouths.  Like, a book can be dumb and shallow, but to deny
access via translation is boycotting potential readers (of dumb and shallow
stuff), thus hurting them?

But, yes it is intellectual content that presumably the author values as
such.  I figure she thinks the left-behind readers will survive w/o
becoming indignant Trumpers.  I think she figures the book’s popularity
might spur some potential readers to anger at Israel, right?  Because she
expressly declares her opposition to Israel’s injustices as her motive.

Also, if a “celebrity” can turn a light onto injustice, it has more juice
than little us.  And maybe other authors will follow suit.  That’s the only
power boycotts have.

David Morris

On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 6:06 PM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:

> My comment? (NP, nesspa?)
>
> Dumb and shallow. But then: Conversations with Friends is a shallow book
> in my opinion.
>
> Boycott potential readers because you think a government is wrong, maybe
> crazy? You just had Trump, didn't you?
>
> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>
> Am Mo., 11. Okt. 2021 um 21:55 Uhr schrieb Mark Kohut <
> mark.kohut at gmail.com>:
>
>> No comment, so others might.
>>
>> Sometimes I squawk/squeak alone.
>>
>> I, too, think that a very successful---in sales, she's selling faster like
>> electric vehicles---writer, also critically if dividedly praised and
>> dissed
>> uses her fame to
>> make a statement against Israel, that apartheid, international
>> law-breaking
>> state, then GOOD. More should do it.
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 3:44 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Why no comment?  This is a place for opinion.  As for me, I say Bravo!
>> I
>> > think Israel deserves full apartheid treatment right now.  And too many
>> > people are afraid to say so.   There!  I said it.
>> >
>> > David Morris
>> >
>> > On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 3:25 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> https://forward.com/opinion/476513/why-wont-sally-rooney-allow-her-latest-novel-to-be-translated-into-hebrew/
>> >> --
>> >> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>> >>
>> >
>
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