This Week in Google Alerts: Home Fires

Marc Aramini · 10 Apr 2012, 13:35 · from 2012-April.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at yahoo.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 06:35:15 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) This Week in Google Alerts: Home Fires
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Now people let their leanings interfere with objective criticism, especially if the viewpoint is unpopular.  As if Tristam Shandy wasn't anti-papist in its rhetoric.  Yet there are many Catholics who love it.  It would be a sin against art for a Catholic to dismiss Tristam Shandy's merit based on that obvious prejudice of the time and place of its composition.  

This reactive "everything must be sound and free from all stereotyping/common fears relating to a belief system so that no one may be offended" makes for some bland, boring, and uninteresting fiction.

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