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. --- from list phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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