From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@spies.com)
Date: Tue Apr 22 2003 - 23:34:20 MDT
On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 20:09:01 -0700, spike66 <spike66@attbi.com> wrote:
> gts wrote:
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<_Lord of the Flies_ puffery elided.>
Bah.
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I think I've already flamed it once on this list. What I have vivid
memories of is that he got Piggy's glasses wrong. The denouement can't work
if Piggy is farsighted, and his glasses can't be used to start a fire if
he's nearsighted. I caught that, and considered that (as a young teenaged
person, in the age group he was supposedly writing about) "phony", as
Holden Caulfeld used to put it--unpardonable in a book that's supposed to
be about objective reality. The author got seduced by his wishes, much like
his characters. I found that terribly ironic and threw the book across the
room as soon as I figured out the story arc (the instant Piggy became
useful).
I'm willing to grunt and admit he had it right about superstition and human
nature as he saw it, but that's as far as I'll go.
You want a chastening view of human nature? ... Thomas Hardy's _Jude the
Obscure_.
-- I am not here to have an argument. I am here as part of a civilization. Sometimes I forget.
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