Wash ,'Objects In Space'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Hey, Andrej Codrescu (spelled wrong, I'm sure) is fun to read.
Speaking of which, I opened a page of Brave New World online for my daughter to see and wound up reading the whole thing right then and there. Compelling little piece of propaganda, that.
But why did I never notice how strongly Bernard is coded as Jewish? (Although there are, of course, no Jews in Ford's world.)
Somehow, that is monumentally gratifying , Hecubus. Seriously, am I missing something not being acquainted with it? Besides being a hippie cliche, that is?
But why did I never notice how strongly Bernard is coded as Jewish? (Although there are, of course, no Jews in Ford's world.)
Huh. I never noticed that, either. (Of course, last time I read that, I was 16. I might want to take a look at it again.)
I've been meaning to reread Walden, too. Last weekend, I went to Walden Pond with my family, and I was startled at how little of the book I could remember.
But why did I never notice how strongly Bernard is coded as Jewish? (Although there are, of course, no Jews in Ford's world.)
I just reread it last month and didn't pick up on it. Of course now I'm slapping my head.
Am I wrong, Wolfram? Please tell me I'm wrong.
I wish I could. He's a stereotype, but definitely a Jewish one.
How so? It's been years since I've read BNW. I was in high school, and wouldn't have picked up typing, unless the teacher pointed it out (which he didn't). We were talking about BNW early on in the book club thread.
He's short, he's dark, he's unattractive, he's pushy, and he behaves badly once he is given power.
Think about every stereotype applied to nouveaux riches social climbers, and you've got Bernard. He doesn't really care about Art the way that the noble artist does, he just has free-floating dissatisfaction.
Well his name, his height, his seeming pettiness, his secret agendas. And I didn't pick up on it either, but if someone points it out, it does seem more than a little possible that it was the intent. But I have to run, so I may have more to say about it after thinking it over.