Comments on: Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell

By: Altitude Zero

Altitude Zero — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 11:53:20 +0000

Steinbeck was an example of something you don’t actually see much of, a genuinely anti-Communist liberal. That’s probably one reason that his work has been so utterly forgotten, aside from the fact that he was an evil white male who obviously loved his people.

By: Bomag

Bomag — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 11:48:13 +0000

A recurring theme in lit is of the sophisticated Brit vs. the naive American.

History hasn’t been kind to the sophisticated Brit: poorly drawn borders, poor generalship in WW1, etc. And now their country has gone Woke, so how fundamentally sound was all that sophistication?

By: Bruce Purcell

Bruce Purcell — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 05:19:27 +0000

John Steinbeck wrote about Viet Cong throwing hand grenades into Catholic girls’ schools. Liberals disliked him for it.

By: Isegoria

Isegoria — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 22:48:08 +0000

Thomas Fowler, Graham Greene’s obvious stand-in, is an unsavory and unsympathetic character, too.

By: Altitude Zero

Altitude Zero — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 17:36:44 +0000

I can’t comment on the book or movie, but Graham Greene was a very questionable person; he was a friend of traitor Kim Philby, and even wrote the introduction to his book after he defected to Moscow, and he also smuggled material to Fidel Castro, whom he professed to admire. I doubt very seriously if his takes on American foreign policy were exactly unbiased. Not a fan…