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Old Mrs. Gibbs wanted to know, at lunch, if I had seen the cells where the new slaves had been "acclimated." (I hadn't heard the word before; later I was to understand that the word was in general use in the South.)
— Sep 19, 2020 02:04PM
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No one believes the Bible literally. Ask the man who tells you he does, "Shall we start dismantling the penitentiary?"
— Sep 24, 2020 10:29AM
Luke
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"I got him back to the subject of redneck sex." Uhhh, Naipaul? You doing ok there?
— Sep 23, 2020 07:17PM
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Naipaul speaks of Du Bois as a settled fifty-something academic would speak of an author whom they had had a hard time with in their high school English class: criticism of inconsequentials; a valuing of coincidences and chance details over intentionally developed themes; and a barely there, yet deeply-rooted, insecurity that, despite repeated proclamations of disinterest, repeatedly returns to the author.
— Sep 21, 2020 12:35PM
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I'm not reading this for the noblest of reasons, but who cares?
— Sep 13, 2020 03:47PM
