That's an interesting point. For something that is so fundamental, so needful to understanding and experiencing life, it's almost creepily often portrayed as tragic.
Yeah, there's a large element of our culture that views the opposite of innocence as corruption. And if you look at it that way, it's easy to figure that people (especially children) should be protected, not just from genuinely dangerous things, but from knowledge.
But if the opposite of innocence is experience, everything changes. Thus all the William Blake.
So, I finished The Sweet Far Thing (the third Libba Bray book).
Wow. Yeah. She did a thing that I totally didn't see coming. I mean, *really.*
The book? Fantastic. Really fucking fantastic.
Gaaaah. My copy of
The Sweet Far Thing
arrives this week. I can't wait!
For something that is so fundamental, so needful to understanding and experiencing life, it's almost creepily often portrayed as tragic.
It's the fall from Eden. It's almost hardwired into us that no matter how pragmatic the result of our feet touching the ground, it makes the baby Jesus cry (feel free to ignore the timelines violated in this post).
And now this:
SAVAGE OBSESSION
Page 284 (pg 434 in Large Type edition)
The odors of the forest, the dew and damp meadow, and the curling
smoke from the wigwams were left behind as Lorinda […]
HIAWATHA by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (!):
Lines 3-5 of the Introduction
With the odors of the forest,
With the dew and damp of meadows,
With the curling smoke of wigwams
From Nikki the Super Badass Researcher
LONGFELLOW?? She stole Longfellow??
Holy schnikes.
She also sent out a message to some supporters that compared her persecutions to that of the Native Americans, and called the Smart Bitches bloggers "spiteful girls."
I'm telling you, next comes pseudicide, and then we start getting notes from "her husband." Might be helped in this case by the fact that she actually has a husband.
Smart Bitches bloggers "spiteful girls."
Like those mean girls in high school.
I'm telling you, next comes pseudicide,
Surely Nazis will come into the mix somehow.
She's already compared this to the genocide of native populations, so I think we can basically give her that one.
And do you know? I feel picked on now as our Native American Indians have always been picked on throughout history.
