Posted on 02/07/2011 4:20:12 PM PST by wagglebee
A few days ago I complained about positive book reviews for a new book that partially involves explicit depictions of sexual intercourse between a chimpanzee and a woman, with the reviewers either lauding the bestiality or praising it with non damnation. I saw the acceptance of bestiality/literary porn as a disturbing symptom. Here is part of what I wrote in that post:
This is a real storm warming. Positive and pornographic depictions of bestiality are nothing to smile about or shrug off. Standing against the normalization or acceptance of bestiality is far more important than having our “sensibilities” offended. As I have written elsewhere, it is a crucial matter of defending and upholding human dignity.
And now–just as I expected–the grand dame of book review publications, the New York Times Book Review, seals the degeneration. Not only does the reviewer Christopher R. Beha–yes,of course! the editor of Harper’s–find the bestiality perfectly fine, but he looks down his intellectual elite nose at those who wouldn’t agree. From “Primal Urges:”
Hale’s daring is most obvious in his portrayal of the relationship between Bruno and Lydia, which eventually breaks the one sexual taboo even Nabokov wouldn’t touch.
Such material will prove an insurmountable barrier to certain readers, the same ones who will never pick up “Lolita.” And the depictions of interspecies love are certainly discomfiting, but not for the reasons you might imagine. Ultimately, the point of these scenes is not to shock us but to ask what fundamentally makes us human, what differences inhere between a creature like Lydia and a creature like Bruno that disqualify the latter from the full range of human affection. In a twist that sounds heavy-handed when summarized but is expertly managed, Lydia suffers an illness that leaves her helpless and aphasic, reduced to her animal self, making the differences between the two seem even more superficial, and their need for each other even more moving..
Please. We rubes understand the subversive game that is afoot among the liberal intellegentsia when they laud works that undermine traditional morality, and more specifically–as in Beha’s statement quoted above–applaud destroying the principle that being human is something unique, important, and special.
Disdaining even fictional accounts of human/animal sexual intercourse is important to both upholding standards of moral decency and a proper respect for human exceptionalism. Color me disgusted, but alas, not surprised.
I'm going to bed. Have a good one!
That’s what happens when a functionally illiterate buffoon swallows a creative writing textbook.
I did a google search on forest153 and got a couple interesting results.
Yeah, I never understood that twisted reasoning either. If the King James version is the only one that God really meant, why didn’t He make that the original? LOL
I guess it would be odd.....I write my comments on a page document so it will spell check for me. This was a comment to “GilGil” about something they posted about some economic information.
I am sincerely bewildered.....I beg all of you an apology; meaning I apologize to each and every one in this post.
I thought the 1611 Old English might be a little tricky.
Let your comment stand.
Why would you think that was the original text?
I would like to accept the ‘creativity’ but I would have to accept all the rest as well.
No thank you.
Let all your comments stand (meaning let them stand before our Father as they were written).
I didn’t realize Pages has a translator. What is your native language?
I did not credit you with creativity. If you understood English you would know that.
It isn’t.
I know, but out of all the words you wrote it was the only word I could accept and that would essentially be accepting everything you said, and I may not.
I have found this very enlightening. And it has answered a couple of questions I've been asking myself. Thank you for your help.
Would you mind taking my trash out when you are finished going through it?
But then there would be nothing left of you.
Interesting......
Speaking of enlightening.....
Your posts have been.
I'm sure the viking kitties wouldn't mind at all.
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