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Date: Fri, 26 Dec 1997 10:40:16 -0500
From: George Trail <gtrail-AT-UH.EDU>
Subject: Re: PLC: Henry Miller and the Academy Who Doesn't Read Him


The eras in which the most noise was made about morality are not necessarily
>the most moral eras.   Sometimes they're just the most hypocritical, as, say,
>the Victorians.
>
>pat
>
>
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Uh, Pat, I just can't let this one go by. It is a commonplace that
Victorians were hypocrites. As a student of the age I must say that such
hypocrisy is difficult to find in individuals. I list Arnold, Tennyson,
Wilde, Swinburne, Morris, Rossetti, Ruskin, just off the top of my head.
Not a hypocrite among them.
g




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