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felis_ultharusI'm still enjoying Solomon Gursky, though it is getting a little irritating because of all the homophobia. At first, I was giving the author the benefit of the doubt -- he's not writing about nice people, and I assumed it was they, not the author, who were the bigoted.
After awhile though, it gets to be a little too much, and you have to wonder if -- among the dozens of queer predators and shallow queens, all played for laughs -- there's going to be one nice one. Mordecai Richler is misanthropic, but there are nice straight people around the margins of his story.
Still, at least I know what happened to the Nicholsons, which I didn't expect because they were such incredibly minor characters, incidental to the plot. And if anything redeems the story's homophobia, it's that the first of Ephraim Gursky's 27 "unacknowledged" children by different mothers is going to be raised by what are probably the only gay male parents in Victorian London :)
(I need a Canadian Lit icon. If I could draw at all, and still access to Photoshop, I think I'd put together a Samurai Susanna animated icon, done in the style of a Canadian Heritage Minute. You know, something like an anime scene, followed by,
"In 1837, Canadian pioneer Susanna Moodie defeated the last ninja gang of the Duoro Township, ending the plague of ninjas that had been plaguing the Canadian wilderness, and thwarting American plans to built a space station capable of destroying Ottawa from orbit. A part of our heritage.")
After awhile though, it gets to be a little too much, and you have to wonder if -- among the dozens of queer predators and shallow queens, all played for laughs -- there's going to be one nice one. Mordecai Richler is misanthropic, but there are nice straight people around the margins of his story.
Still, at least I know what happened to the Nicholsons, which I didn't expect because they were such incredibly minor characters, incidental to the plot. And if anything redeems the story's homophobia, it's that the first of Ephraim Gursky's 27 "unacknowledged" children by different mothers is going to be raised by what are probably the only gay male parents in Victorian London :)
(I need a Canadian Lit icon. If I could draw at all, and still access to Photoshop, I think I'd put together a Samurai Susanna animated icon, done in the style of a Canadian Heritage Minute. You know, something like an anime scene, followed by,
"In 1837, Canadian pioneer Susanna Moodie defeated the last ninja gang of the Duoro Township, ending the plague of ninjas that had been plaguing the Canadian wilderness, and thwarting American plans to built a space station capable of destroying Ottawa from orbit. A part of our heritage.")
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Date: 2005-09-27 07:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-29 03:43 pm (UTC)