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

[Jonathan Lighter]

Yeah, but animals don't have souls.

Also, if my n-word plan won't make me rich, forget it.

JL

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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