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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 13:44:08 -0400
From: John Young <jya-AT-pipeline.com>
Subject: Re: PLC: Howard on Mein Kampf


Pat Sloane wrote:

>My objection was that in the process of calling Eliot an antisemite,
Harrison 
>was letting loose with some pretty outrageously antisemitic remarks himself, 
>and didn't even seem to notice he was doing it. People do that, and at least 
>it served to sensitize later writers on the subject. They all seem to have 
>gotten in the habit of monitoring what they were writing themselves.

What this says to me is watch your mouth, wash it with soap, some
words should not be spoken, written, and if you want to be a good
well-thought of sensitive person don't even think the thoughts 
underlying.

And right it is to propound this. Otherwise you wind up bad writing and 
missing out on the good, senstive writing awards.

Now, seriously Pat, do you believe in the consequences of forbidding
writing with a bias, a prejudice, a loathing, a hatred, say, if applied to
you.
Whatever to write for if not to write wrongly, insensitively.

Now I'm daydreaming about fiction, so it may not be fair to expect the
impossible, imaginary, of non-fiction.

Wherever did treacherous non-fiction come from, the pretense of not 
lying vilely? Probably a bastard out of reason and righteousness. The
good word, oh my, what a good way to say bad hiddenly.


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