BiggJawn
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Sat Sep-18-04 11:11 PM
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The Estate of Sinclair Lewis should SUE the BFEE.... |
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For Plagiarism.
I'm about 1/2 way through "It Can't happen HERE!" and the damn thing reads like Karl Rove's playbook. Even down to having the antagonist insisting that he's just a country bumpkin...
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Sat Sep-18-04 11:13 PM
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1. Yep. Lewis nailed it. You should try "Iron Heel" next. |
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Sat Sep-18-04 11:14 PM
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2. Funny you bring up Sinclair Lewis |
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When I read here yesterday about the Preacher banging the ladies of the congregation to rid them of the devil, my first thought was "Elmer Gantry".
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Sat Sep-18-04 11:22 PM
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3. CS Lewis, too. Poppy stole "1000 points of light" from > |
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the Narnia Chronicles. Ugh. Soiled that phrase, he did.
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Sat Sep-18-04 11:35 PM
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4. If it was against the law for presidents to have... |
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... speechwriters, there'd be a lot less of that sort of thing... not to mention that it would be a lot quieter on the airwaves.
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Sat Sep-18-04 11:50 PM
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5. I thought you'd be talking about "Babbitt." nt |
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Sun Sep-19-04 09:16 AM
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7. I'm only at Chapter 14. |
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Don't know any "Babbitt". Except that lead-tin alloy that used to be made into bearings.
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Sat Sep-18-04 11:57 PM
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Edited on Sat Sep-18-04 11:57 PM by frylock
the parallels are somewhat unsettling.
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BiggJawn
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Sun Sep-19-04 09:23 AM
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9. "The snakes disloyal to our Bush, we're riding on a rail...." |
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Edited on Sun Sep-19-04 09:24 AM by BiggJawn
"...They'll wish to God they never was, when we get them to jail.
Bush and Bush and keep it up To World Domination he's floated. You are a most un-Murkan pup unless for Bush you voted.
Every Ditto-Head get a whip to use upon some traitor. And every AntiBush we skip today, we'll come and tend to later...."
Fits, doesn't it?
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Sun Sep-19-04 11:09 AM
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14. it fits a little too well.. |
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Sun Sep-19-04 09:20 AM
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8. As should Orwell's estate and Margeret Atwood |
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The BFEE apparently read all the distopias as guidelines rather than as cautionary tales.
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Sun Sep-19-04 09:26 AM
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10. The one big diference though.... |
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Is that those authors over-estimated the American Public and their response. Just a little. Hey, not even Orwell could have forseen FAUXNooz....
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kayell
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Sun Sep-19-04 09:28 AM
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11. FAUXNooz = Ministry of Truth |
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Sun Sep-19-04 09:48 AM
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12. Only part of the MoT... |
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Once Karl "Sarason" Rove gets done bringing those upstarts at "60 Minutes" to heel and has CBS properly on board with the REST of the cheering section....
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Sun Sep-19-04 10:43 AM
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13. I'm only up to page 86, but |
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I'm thinking maybe Lewis had a crystal ball that worked. His description of Windrip:
He "was vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected, and in his 'ideas' almost idiotic, while his celebrated piety was that of a traveling salesman for church furniture."
"He believed in....the superiority of anyone who possessed a million dollars. He regarded...all foreigners, possibly excepting the British, as degenerate."
The book is long out of print but worth the hunt. My dad happened to pick up a copy for a quarter at a church used book sale. Someone didn't know what a treasure they had.
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Sun Sep-19-04 03:08 PM
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15. Kick. It's always good to promote books that helps us understand... |
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...the current insanity better.
Or at the very least those books that scare our lazy asses into some sort of action.
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Sun Sep-19-04 03:18 PM
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16. It Can't Happen Here available free for online reading or download |
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