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UD’s Colleague, Joe Fisher…

… proprietor of the blog You
Made Me Theorize, sends her
news of the latest edition
of a Joseph Conrad classic.

Margaret Soltan, January 8, 2010 10:51AM
Posted in: kind of a little weird

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7 Responses to “UD’s Colleague, Joe Fisher…”

  1. J. Fisher Says:
    January 8th, 2010 at 11:15AM

    Thanks for the plug, UD! My blog will be getting off the ground again soon once my (new) students have to, you know, do their homework.

    I’m finding this whole Conrad story fascinating. I just don’t know if the euphemism “n-word” can actually overwrite the word that it’s trying to overwrite. Can we ever utter a euphemism without hearing echoes of the disagreeable term?

  2. Margaret Soltan Says:
    January 8th, 2010 at 11:26AM

    Joe: You’re welcome.

    Yeah – I just said to my husband, “This morning, the word ‘nigger’ is on everyone’s lips, thanks to this new edition of the Conrad story.”

  3. Eric the Read Says:
    January 8th, 2010 at 12:41PM

    I can’t believe this is not a parody. Are you sure it’s not just a postmodern commentary on bowdlerization of classic texts? Because OW MY HEAD STOP IT.

  4. jim Says:
    January 8th, 2010 at 6:17PM

    Is there a comparable edition of Firbank?

  5. Margaret Soltan Says:
    January 8th, 2010 at 6:36PM

    Prancing N-Word?

  6. Brian Says:
    January 9th, 2010 at 7:47PM

    According to the Amazon.com reviews, this edition is from a conservative publishing house that has released it to mock political correctness. The editorial description seems to bear that out.

  7. Margaret Soltan Says:
    January 9th, 2010 at 8:20PM

    I knew it was from a conservative Christian press, but I was under the impression that they didn’t do it in a mocking spirit.

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