Comments on: Reading Across America or Their Eyes Were Watching God

By: Walter

Walter — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:19:58 +0000

Holy crap! She actually said, “I’ve never been able to read negro dialect”? Oh, that I could have been in attendance! You fail to include in your notes your no doubt professional handling of the situation– I envision the normally loquacious and quite pleasant Conan caught, in the briefest moment, by Terror and Anger and Pity and Fear, but mostly angst. If only you could have retorted with, “I’ve never fully comprehended hate speech.” But alas, we applaud you, adult services librarian, for attempting to contribute to the greater social good, and for not slappin’ that old bitty across the face.

By: Walter

Walter — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:02:02 +0000

And thank you for the Job plug. He haunts me still. The difference here (I have not read Their eyes… nor any other Hurston) being that the god force in the end of the novel does not interact with the people, but extinguishes their light and remains at a cool, unreachable distance. Job is able to interact, however strangely and incomprehensibly, with his whirlwind.

By: Walter

Walter — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:54:41 +0000

Hey!@! I bathe at _least_ twice a week and often as much as five or six times!