"The N-Word of the Narcissus." By Joseph Conrad

[Wilson Gray]

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> rich

Not!!!

When I saw that title, I thought that it was meant to be a parody of
the P.C. mind-set. Pretty funny! Then, after I had looked it up and
discovered that it was a real book and that the editor meant his
version as a serious statement WRT racism, I was ROTFLMAO!

(Now, if I could find a way to get people to realize that defaulting
to the *masculine* in cases like _actor_ vs. _actress_ hardly matters
in a language in which, e.g. chickens, hens, sheep, and cows are
routinely referred to as _he_ , as though the words cockerel,
cock/rooster, ram, and bull don't exist, and it seems to escape the
notice of everyone but me.)

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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