"Choose one: Because Webb wrote this passage, he's (a) a homosexual incestuous pedophile, or (b) an artist trying to make a dramatic point."
Here is one of the passages, "The man grabbed his young son in his arms, turned him upside down, and put the boy’s penis in his mouth." Please tell me what POINT the author was trying to make?
I don't know if he is a homosexual pedophile, but I doubt those kinds of thoughts occur to normal well-adjusted people.
As I am not Webb, I cannot say what was in his head, as a novelist and artist, when he wrote it. But as a writer myself, if I wrote a passage like that, I would be trying to draw from my readers a strong abhorrent reaction to the character performing that particular act. The more descriptive I made it, the stronger the reader's abhorrence would be.I'd wager Webb was trying to paint this character in a very disagreeable way, and used language calculated to do so. How else would you expect an author to depict a homosexual pedophile? With happy bunny-and-kitten language?