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   From: edwardbelsky@worldnet.att.net   
      
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   > On 24 Aug, 22:05, Martha Bridegam  wrote:   
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   >   
   > You didn't mind him being called an old bugger, then? It's ok, she's   
   > half-black (or half-white, or...)   
   >   
   This is adolescent. It is not grown-up.  You are obsessed with Forster's   
   homosexuality, so you think that Smith is being evasive when she skirts   
   it -- except through a statement that dimisses the b-word by supercharging   
   its meaning: "Like all English novelists, [Forster] wasa tricky bugger."   
   You also seem to think that Zadie Smith's hybrid skin somehow conditions her   
   approach to Forster when it is clear to everyone but you that she writes   
   here as an Englishwoman not as a Negro.  General Conyers, excuse me if I   
   speak out of turn, but if you want to have reserves about homos that is your   
   right as a red-blooded male, but it is vital that you make the leap about   
   Negroes. A Negro is someone who was born black.  His or her blackness was   
   true from the time he was one minute old.  A homo is someone who came out of   
   puberty with a liking for his own sex.  The first thing has nothing to do   
   with choice or character and is therefore not impeachable.  It is really   
   ironic that you totally miss how Zadie Smith refuses to let her cool eye be   
   cooped up generationally. or do you think that her ahistorical perspective   
   in the Forster article is is a pose, a little throwing of dust in our eyes   
   to distract us from her legerdemain of  fearlessly crossing the big divide   
   and crashing lily-white Eliotish and Connollyish purlieus?  O if you only   
   had the presumption she has!  You once said that I have a problem with the   
   ideas of excellence and genius and ranking in the arts.  This is absurd   
   since I am an arrant elitist and you've been reading too much Roger Kimball   
   and Dinesh D'Souza and quite frankly, on the basis of your story about   
   Evgenius Yummy, I think it is YOU who has problems with elitism!  By finding   
   bien-pensants under the bed everywhere, your sly mind has found a way to   
   make your working-class loyalties compatible with an intelligent theory of   
   society and our times.  Now you listen up good faggot  and maybe if I sense   
   that I have your ear I'll toss you some pearls of wisdom if I happen to be   
   that way disposed (said in a Brooklyn accent). I am tired of your lip, tired   
   of your tedious paranoia. I think in the past I only hurt you by 'digging'   
   you so much.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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